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I've been dying to share with you how to make the best prime rib dinner ever! In my family our tradition has always been on Christmas Eve we serve a prime rib dinner. Sometimes I think people are afraid to cook a prime rib. Now, you do have to decide between a bone in or boneless roast. I have cooked both and love them equally.
Mark and I used to live in Salt Lake City, Utah and every year we would order a roast ahead of time. The reason being this awesome<|fim_middle|> bread dough pulls away from the sides of the mixing bowl. Cover with greased plastic wrap and let rise the first time, about an hour. Punch the dough down and mold into small balls about 1-1/2 inches to 2 inches in diameter. Cover with greased plastic and let rise one more time, about an hour, or until double the size. Remove the plastic wrap and bake at 350 degrees for about 15-20 minutes on a greased cookie sheet. Do not overbake. They should be golden brown. I spread a little butter on the tops after baking so the rolls are soft on top. If you like a crispier top you can skip this step.
I, too, serve a prime rib for Christmas Eve dinner. Being Norwegian, we've always celebrated Christmas Eve as our family does in Norway. I used to be scared of cooking a prime rib because it's such an expensive cut of meat. However, Costco is my go-to place to get them each year. They'll even provide you with receipes. I don't, however, get them preseasoned. I usually just use a salt rub – kosher salt, pepper and rosemary. I lay it on pretty thick, too, and it's really yummy. No one in our family likes it well done so the trick is to cook it to just about the right temperature and let it stand while it finishes cooking. Don't be afraid to try one! Sometimes at Costco, they'll cut it down in size if it doesn't leave the remaining piece too small.
Thanks for all you do, Linda! Keep those recipes coming…love 'em!
Lefse! Our church growing up had a strong Norwegian base! Every November after deer season the Men's group would host a lutefisk and lefse banquet! The lefse was my favorite part of the meal!
Stop teasing us! What is Lefse? | meat store called, Snider's Meat would sell out fast. If you didn't order by December 5th, you would have to buy it somewhere else. Maybe that's changed, but that's how it was when we lived there. I always had to give them the size in inches so it would fit in our roaster pan.
We have been doing this tradition for almost 40 years now, wow, how the time has flown by for us. Now, our daughters carry on the same idea. When the family was smaller we baked our prime rib in the oven in a roaster pan. As the family grew with sons-in-law and grandkids we needed to use a large electric roaster pan to bake it.
I typically buy my prime rib roast pre-seasoned. The butcher will suggest some seasonings they recommend if yours is not preseasoned. We serve it with horseradish mixed with sour cream to taste. You can make the bottle of horseradish a little milder by adding more sour cream depending on the "heat" of the brand you choose to purchase.
Preheat the oven to 250 degrees. Season the roast and cook fat side up uncovered in the oven. If you use an electric roaster you will bake it with the cover. A meat thermometer is recommended to ensure the desired doneness. Remove the roast from the oven when the temperature hits 138 to be rare, 148 to be medium, 158 to be well done. Larger roasts cook faster than times listed so watch over your thermometer. Your roast will continue to cook approximately 5 additional degrees once removed from the oven or roaster. Let the roast sit for at least 15 minutes before you start to carve it. Oven temperatures vary so much, please keep your eye on the temperature of the meat.
The following temperatures will vary, so these times are approximate.
These potatoes are famous in Utah, they are called either cheesy potatoes or funeral potatoes. They are super yummy!
We usually decide ahead of time which potato we feel like eating with the prime rib dinner, so I'm sharing almost all of them today.
You can bake the russet potatoes covered with foil (non-shiny outside), plain or oiled and sprinkled with Kosher Salt. I poke the potatoes with a fork. I don't know if its an old wives tale but I always do this when baking them. After baking, cut them in half lengthwise. Scoop out the insides as close to the edge of the peel as possible. I mash the insides with my potato masher with butter, sour cream, green onion and salt in a medium-size bowl. Heap the filling back into the skins and bake until heated through. Bake at 350 degrees about 30 minutes. Sprinkle with grated cheese on top when you serve them.
Mark would have these every night of the week! They really are creamy and fluffy with all that butter, milk, sour cream, or whipped cream!
Peel the potatoes and cut them into medium size chunks. Then boil them in water until a fork test shows that they are cooked enough. I drain the water and add whatever I have in the refrigerator to make them creamy and fluffy. I use either milk, sour cream, whip cream, butter, and salt, then mash them with my stainless steel masher. You can cook them in your pressure cooker as well. Easy Peasy!
I always make my homemade no-fail dinner rolls. You can make these rolls if you have fresh ingredients, I promise.
Place all of the ingredients in order into your mixing bowl. Be careful with the eggs not to add the warm milk too slowly or you will have scrambled eggs. Add half of the flour and keep adding the rest of the flour until the | 776 |
FONOM P<|fim_middle|> federal government fulfilling their commitments announced in Budget 2016.
Mayor Alan Spacek
President of FONOM | leased With Infrastructure Commitments Announced in the 2016 Federal Budget
Date published: Thursday, March 24, 2016
The Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities (FONOM) was pleased with several commitments in the 2016 federal budget which was announced by the Minister of Finance, Bill Morneau on March 22nd in the House of Commons.
The $120 billion over ten years committed to infrastructure such a public transit, social infrastructure and green infrastructure will consist of two phases. The first phase will immediately invest in urgent repairs and rehabilitation of public transit, water and wastewater systems, affordable housing and protecting infrastructure from the effects of climate change. The second phase will be a long-term plan that will be more broad in nature and focused on building a cleaner economy and integrated transportation networks.
"We have been calling on all levels of government to commit to addressing the infrastructure deficit across the country. The significant commitments that were made to both maintain and rehabilitate existing infrastructure as well as develop a long-term plan to build new infrastructure was welcomed by municipalities," says Mayor Alan Spacek of Kapuskasing and President of FONOM.
The federal government also made commitments to supporting our First Nations neighbors, students, seniors, as well as addressing rail safety and climate change. Budget 2016 also proposed to extend Employment Insurance regular benefits to regions that have faced economic challenges, particularly resource based economies, which included Northern Ontario.
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It is no easy task…being a skipper of an America's Cup team.
Not only do they have to motivate their team constantly, but they also carry the weight of expectation on their shoulders…sometimes of a nation.
The six skippers preparing to start battle on Saturday (27 May) have decades of sailing experience between them.
Some, like ORACLE TEAM USA's Jimmy Spithill know what it's like to taste the sweetness of success – having won both the 2010 and 2013 America's Cup.
Others, such as SoftBank Team Japan's Dean Barker have had to deal with defeat, having got to the finals for New Zealand in 2003, 2007 and 2013 and walked away empty handed (although he did win for Team New Zealand in 2000).
Sir Ben Ainslie for Land Rover BAR certainly carries the hopes of Britain, which has never won the trophy in the 166 year history of the America's Cup.
The pressure will certainly be mounting for all of the six skippers….and the next five weeks will decide who can keep their cool.
Potted Sailing History: After becoming the most decorated Olympic sailor of all time, Sir Ben Ainslie turned his attention to the America's Cup. After competing with Ben Ainslie Racing (BAR) on the 2012/13 America's Cup World Series, he joined ORACLE TEAM USA. Initially a tactician, he was on-board for their defence of the 34th Cup in 2013, helping the American team win the event, 9-8, against Emirates Team New Zealand. In doing so, he became the first British sailor to be on board a winning boat in the America's Cup since Charlie Barr in 1903. As well his Olympic titles, he is am 11 times World Champion, nine times European Champion and Four times World Sailor of the Year.
Potted Sailing History: Glenn Ashby is a multiple world multihull world champion. He won 10 Australian A Class championships and 15 world championships across three multihull classes before focusing on the America's Cup. Initially, he was head coach for BMW Oracle Racing for the team's successful defeat of Alinghi in Valencia in 2010, before moving to Emirates New Zealand. Unlike the other skippers, Ashby is a wing trimmer and not the helmsman on board, an honour he has handed to Olympic Gold medallist Peter Burling. Ashby has also raced and coached in the Extreme 40 class.
Quirky<|fim_middle|> Challenge, which challenged for the title. Barker has also raced in the 2003, 2007 and 2013 America's Cup finals before moving over to SoftBank Team Japan. Barker has also won the Louis Vuitton America's Cup Trials in 2007 and 2013. In 2014, he was ISAF World Match Racing Champion.
Quirky fact: Dean Barker loves motor racing, competing in a 240-horsepowered Ford. He also admits to being a "bad golfer".
Potted Sailing History: One of France's greatest sailors, Franck Cammas has vast experience in offshore, inshore, mono and multihull sailing and first shot to prominence after winning the Solitaire du Figaro at the age of 24.
Cammas has many sailing wins and records to his name including seven time World Champion on the 60 ft trimaran Groupama 2, winning the round the world Jules Verne Trophy and Route de Rhum and winner of the 2011/12 Volvo Ocean Race as skipper of Groupama.
He has also been involved in previous America's Cup campaigns, helping to train BMW Oracle Racing, which won in 2010 in Valencia.
Potted Sailing History: Like Sir Ben Ainslie, Nathan Outteridge turned his attention to the America's Cup after taking Olympic gold. He won the 49er class alongside teammate Iain Jensen at London 2012, and went on to join Artemis Racing as a helmsman to challenge for the 34th America's Cup. He has multiple 49er class World Championship titles under his belt (2008, 2009, 2011 and 2012) and won the International Moth Class World title in 2011 and 2014.
Potted sailing history: The youngest skipper to ever win the America's Cup, Jimmy Spithill has taken the honour twice, leading his team to one of the greatest comebacks in 2013. With ORACLE TEAM USA down 8-1, he inspired his team to win eight consecutive wins to take the 2013 title 9-8 against Emirates Team New Zealand. For this, he was named the 2014 ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year. He is a multiple world champion in both fleet and match racing and in 2015, won line honours onboard the super-maxi Comanche in the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.
His goal now is to lead ORACLE TEAM USA to three consecutive America's Cup wins.
Quirky fact: Jimmy Spithill likes to pick or catch his own food. Ideally it should be organic. | fact: When not racing, Glenn Ashby runs a sailmaking business with his wife, Mel.
Potted Sailing History: Arguably the skipper with the most America's Cup experience, this will be Dean Barker's 6th America's Cup. He made his debut at 26, before taking Team New Zealand to America's Cup victory in 2000, helming in the deciding race to beat the Italian racing syndicate, Prada | 94 |
<|fim_middle|> a dead rubber, hinging on the result of Chile against Panama earlier in the day.
"I wish we could know what's going to happen [in the game between Chile and Panama] before we make the team," he said.
"But we have to make a decision [on the starting XI] before knowing what happens before us.
Previous articleCan US national team maintain their perfect record at CenturyLink Field? | Argentina coach Gerardo Martino confirmed Lionel Messi will play against Bolivia as the Barcelona star continues his road to recovery.
Messi played his first minutes of the Copa America Centenario against Panama on Friday, scoring a hat-trick off the bench in their 5-0 win.
The win saw Argentina book their spot in the quarter-finals of the tournament, but Martino wants to make sure they secure top spot in Group D.
"Leo will play," the 53-year-old confirmed as they prepare to face Bolivia at CenturyLink Field in Seattle on Tuesday.
"There is a schedule that we want to keep him on going forward so that he feels good. We are going to do it in this way.
However, Martino admits he holds fears about losing players to injury in what could prove to be just | 162 |
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STRIKE: Emilio Garcia, a member of the University of Miami's Bowling Club, takes part in a game at Bird Bowl, the club's practice facility. COURTESY KRISTI MESMER
The Bowling Club was in shambles. The team had no true president, barely any members and Kristi Mesmer could not have been more disappointed. That's when the freshman, motivated by her passion for the game, got active.
Mesmer, a native of Chicago and now a sophomore at the University of Miami, only started bowling four years ago, at the<|fim_middle|> work and can just enjoy it more," she said.
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DCC Spin-A-Thon benefits cancer research | urging of a hometown friend looking to form a team. By the time Mesmer arrived on campus over a year ago, she was addicted and made it a personal goal to get the club back on to the lanes, earning the title of president along the way.
"When I got here the club had been abandoned," Mesmer said. "The previous president kind of just left, and no one took over. There was one kid who was still on the team, and I tracked him down. He was actually the president and didn't know it."
With help from the remaining member, Nick Prakope, Mesmer reorganized the club and got students bowling again. She promoted the Bowling Club by setting up a booth at Canesfest and posting advertisements in the dorms and at the Wellness Center.
Now in full control, Mesmer proudly proclaims that the team is stronger than ever, meeting twice a week under two categories: competitive and recreational.
Recreational meetings are for anyone looking to have fun and bowl casually, with membership dues of $50. The competitive team, with membership dues of $200, is comprised of five to eight members and competes against schools from around the country in about five to six national tournaments a year, including the Las Vegas Invitational and the Las Vegas Shootout.
The Bowling Club's rebirth has not been as easy as one might think, however. With a group primarily made up of freshmen, transportation to Bird Bowl – the team's "practice facility" which is over six miles away from campus – has been an issue. Mesmer has become, for all intents and purposes, a soccer mom, driving players to and from the bowling alley.
"Freshmen can't have cars on campus, so I have to drive everybody," Mesmer said. "If I can't make practice for some reason, nobody can go."
University of Miami club sports usually don't get reimbursed for local travel, but Rhonda DuBord, the associate director of Recreational Sports at the University of Miami, has helped Mesmer overcome her situation, allowing her to use funds allocated to the team for gas reimbursement.
"The Student Activity Fee Allocation Committee gives [the Bowling Club]money each year which helps pay for travel," DuBord said, adding how proud she was of all that Mesmer has been able to accomplish. "She's taken over the leadership and gotten the club organized, ordering T-shirts, competing in events."
In addition to the SAFAC funds, which mostly pays for long-distance travel accommodations during tournaments, Mesmer is also able to use membership dues to compensate for local travel expenses.
As for Mesmer, her experience with the Bowling Club has been more time-consuming than she originally imagined. She remains positive and expects other members to take on more responsibilities in the future, possibly allowing her to have more fun in the process.
"Hopefully I won't have to take on all the | 592 |
Unique, One of a kind, immaculately maintained Chateau with great curb appeal. Walter Durham ...at his best. Designed in 1965 by well known Main Line Philadelphia architect. This is one of Durham's classic French Country designs. Brimming with charm and elegance, it sits on a lush acre on a cul-de-sac street in the very popular Radnor School District. Hardwood floors throughout plus<|fim_middle|> and wainscoting. Many possibilities for first floor family room. Newer heater and C/A and roof and gutters. Repointed chimney. Addition of Endless indoor pool with radiant heated floor, a ceiling fan and energy efficient Hugh Lofting, timber frame post and beam room wit Ann Sacks tile form Portland Oregon. Spacious storage. Specimen plantings, beautiful Azelea ringed rear patio.
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In creating new materials with preprogrammed properties it is necessary to use extensively the achievements of modern science in its different fields: theoretical physics, therm<|fim_middle|> industry in electron valves as a replacement of nickel, they are also utilized in manufacturing thermocouple tubes, primus stove bodies and other items. In automotive industry AIA bands are used in manufacturing clamping collars and couplings for hose connections and for the piping of cooling systems, in fabricating fitting pieces, cylinder heads, heat filters, reflectors.
Copper-kovar wires are used in fabricating output leads for powerful transistors. | odynamics of chemical reactions, composite materials, advanced research methods, applied informatics, computer-aided design, modeling, etc. There has to be chosen a completely new approach to the development of a new complex composition (new material) following the algorithm: "components of material – preprogrammed properties - new material".
Multilayered composite materials – bands and wire find widely application in chemical, electrical, machine building, food and other industries, as well as in jewelry manufacturing and in medicine. Bimetals and Multilayered clad materials appeal to customers not only on account of their durability, but also due to their high physical-chemical properties as a whole. Base of the most bimetal products is made from low-carbon steels (GOST steel grades 08кп, 08пс, 08ю, 10кп, 11кп , etc.) clad (covered) by nonferrous metals and their alloys (aluminum, copper, brass, bronze, nickel, etc.). The cladding thickness is usually 3 - 50% of total thickness. Service properties of such bimetals change in the wide range.
The NIN bands (nickel-iron-nickel) and CIN (copper-iron-nickel) are employed in electrical industry (current-carrying basis of electrodes, chemical current source casings, etc.), in precision machinery industry.
Bimetallic copper-aluminum band is used in manufacture of conductive connection units, electrocontact tips, electric apparatus connection clamps, blade type power isolators, connections of current-carrying wires, bimetallic contacts in electrolysis related productions, etc.
Aluminum-copper bimetal combines high electrotechnical and strength properties with minimal utilization of costly and scarce materials, the aluminum-copper products are able to operate at elevated temperatures and have high wear resistance of contacting surfaces.
The AIA bands (aluminum-iron-aluminum) and AN (aluminum-nickel) bands are used in electrovacuum | 424 |
Mumbai-ites have crazy schedules all day long and can crave a meal at an odd time like 5 PM. To cater to the workaholic cities, all day cafes work best and we just ran into one that delighted us with their awesome menu – 212 All Day Café and Bar.
The café<|fim_middle|> we'd love to hear your verdict. | has vibrant interiors, great music and friendly staff who understands if you've walked in to have simply have a beer with some nibblers as you work or have come on a long overdue date or for a lavish meal after a long hard day. It caters to one and all, a fact which we observed unfolding right in front of us as people with different agendas walked in. We on the other hand set ourselves to lovely dinner to find out how good the food is at 212 All Day!
The menu has various sections like Big Plates, Small Plates, Breakfast All Day, Salads & Soups and so on to meet the needs of their diners. We started off with their small plates and ordered a Pulled Chicken Toast to begin with. The toast was crispy, the chicken delicious with just the right amount of mustard mayo. Lovely snack with a chilled beer!
We don't know a single meat lover who can resist the charm of the good old BBQ Rubbed Pork Spare Ribs. Well, there probably aren't any of the kind. The ribs here were absolutely mind blowing. Well cooked with a lovely glaze of the homemade barbecue sauce that shined through. Lip smacking dish, a must try!
212 All Day Café and Bar also has delightful seafood options and why not? The city is known for its finger-licking fare of prawns and fish. We delved into the refreshing Calamari Rings which were tossed with lemon and butter. Well-seasoned and not overly salty, the calamari has a lovely crispy thin batter. We also enjoyed their Gambas Caliente which is nothing but shrimp tossed with spicy garlic and finished up with a paprika glaze. The zesty flavours were on point and we couldn't stop munching on these!
We thoroughly enjoyed their mains especially the Penne with Sundried Tomato Crème. Tossed with broccoli with a spicy crème and topped with parmesan, the penne was delicious. Pasta can easily become your comfort food if you keep having excellent ones like these. After the sumptuous penne, we delved into a terrific Chargrilled Norwegian Salmon which was doused in butter, was cooked to perfection with a caper vinaigrette and tantalizing flavours. The potato scallion confit served along with lightly tossed baby corn, broccoli and cherry tomatoes on the side were all too good and made the fish a delight to eat. The sides made it a well-balanced dish. For those who don't mind a little extra butter and an amazingly cooked fish, cannot afford to miss this one.
Coming to our final dish of the night, we tried the Chargrilled Chicken Breast which was served with black peppercorn jus, mashed potatoes and a side of lightly tossed carrots, zucchini and broccoli. The chicken was well cooked and had beautiful smoky flavours complimented by the jus. The peppercorn was not at all overpowering but gave a subtle flavour, elevating the dish. The creamy mashed potatoes and the lovely veggies on the side made for a classic European style dinner.
Last but not the least, we had a lovely dessert at 212 All Day Café & Bar. Though full, we knew that the dessert is going to be a delight as the food so far had been amazing. So we dug our tiny dessert spoons into the gooey chocolate of the Triple Mudpie Cake. Served with chocolate shavings and tiny pieces of fresh pear and sweet lime, the cake was awesome. The soft texture of the creamy chocolate was delightful. The fresh fruit that cut through the heaviness of the chocolate was a smart idea.
With that our dining experience at this lovely café came to an end. We're sure that after reading this you're surely going to make a visit to 212 All Day. When you do, don't forget to come back and tell us how your experience was, | 792 |
3 Bed 2.5 Bath Beach Villa w/Large Heated Pool & All New Furnishings!!!
Welcome to Villa Miceli! This luxurious 3 Bedroom 2 1/2 Bathroom Heated Pool Beach Villa is situated less than two blocks from a wonderful beach portal in the picturesque, seaside community, of Lauderdale by the Sea, Florida. Villa Miceli has recently undergone a complete renovation that has left this ideal vacation villa with all new furniture throughout, including new televisions in all three bedrooms, as well as a new 55' LED High Definition television in the open living area.
Villa Miceli truly offers the best of both worlds: a large private heated pool, the sparkling Atlantic Ocean (with direct beach portal access) less than two blocks away, the Lauderdale by the Sea Municipal Park (offering Basketball, Soccer and Children's Playground) one block away. The park is public but tennis courts are private there are public tennis courts 1 mile away. Also a full service shopping center (offering a Publix grocery store, Dunkin Donuts, CVS Pharmacy, etc.) one block away. You will not find a more ideal location for your getaway vacation. You are truly able to walk everywhere throughout Lauderdale by the Sea from the villa.
This ideal vacation home is fully equipped with wireless internet, cable television in all three bedrooms and phone service.
Ground Floor Amenities : Entering on the ground floor, you are greeted by a large and very open living area. As previously stated, the entire villa is equipped with all new furnishings. The living area offers a leather sofa with direct views of the 55' LED High Definition television w/dvd entertainment area, as well as the custom heated pool and lounge area outside. The large and very open granite kitchen is stunning and offers stainless appliances, custom wood cabinetry and a long granite breakfast counter with four (4) bar stools. The dining area offers a circular seating arraignment for up to eight (8) people. There is also a bathroom located on the ground floor.
2nd Floor Amenities : Upstairs you are greeted by the very private and large master suite, which offers a king size bed, two nightstands, dresser and a 42' television. There is also a private balcony off the master suite. The master bathroom feels more like a resort spa, offering a full size jacuzzi spa tub, a separate steam shower, two separate marble counters with sinks, a private make-up area and an enormous walk-in closet. In addition to the master bedroom and large walk-in laundry room, the second floor provides two guest rooms. Bedroom Two offers a Queen Size Bed, two nightstands and a wall mounted television. Bedroom Three offers two (2) Twin Beds with a new wall mounted television. There is a second full size bathroom on the second floor, as well as a large, walk-in laundry room with a full size washer & dryer.
Villa Miceli is ideal for individuals and families in search of a relaxing getaway with the convenient accessibility to everything Lauderdale by the Sea and greater Fort Lauderdale has to offer. Villa Miceli is the very definition of a luxury vacation home. The home is fully equipped with wireless Internet, phone service and cable television in all three bedrooms, as well as a new 55' LED High Def television in the living room. Villa Miceli also provides additional linens, pillows and towels. An air mattress and pack-n-play are available upon request.
Amazing location. Walk to everything. You can see the beach portal from the front driveway!
This home is located on Washingtonia Street. There is a beach portal on Washingtonia Street and you can see it from the front driveway. You will walk about a block and a 1/2 to get inside the beach.
the property location is about 10 minutes to Downtown Las Olas Blvd.
<|fim_middle|> be repaired but other than that everything worked, a/c very cool, kitchen had everything u need. Would return to this location again.
Home,pool and location as good as advertised.
Management provided excellent professional service.
Lauderdale by the Sea is a quaint picturesque seaside town 1 mile north of the Fort Lauderdale strip. With a fishing pier, ancient coral reef, town circle with restaurants and shopping, lowrise building height restrictions, 8000 residents, this small beach town remains a sought after charming beachside community. Virtually everything you will need is within 2 blocks from your front door. The newly redesigned Lauderdale by the Sea Municipal Park, which offers tennis courts, basketball courts, soccer field, children's playground and restroom facilities, is one block away. The Sea Ranch shopping center, which offers a Public grocery store, CVS Pharmacy, Dunkin' Donuts, Baskin Robbins Ice Cream, as well as many wonderful restaurants and boutique shops, is one block away. You can also walk to the downtown area, which offers entertainment, many restaurants and pubs, as well as ice cream stores, various shops and the famous fishing pier. | Beautiful granite kitchen that is equipped with everything you will need!
This is a 2 story home without an elevator.
Villa Miceli offers a fantastic & large custom heated pool!
Guests must be Twenty-Five (25) years of Age to reserve the vacation home We require proof of identification (a government issued photo id) We require a Damage Insurance or a Damage Security Deposit required is $1,500.00 and this amount is placed as a hold on the renter's credit card. We require copy of credit card for Damage Deposit We require a list of occupants We require a list of automobiles used by the guest and parked at the vacation home We require a background screening We reserve the right to cancel any booking that doesn't meet house rules.
The Villa was clean, spacious, and everything worked properly. The furniture appeared newer. Close to beach, downtown, and the grocery store!
One thing I would ask is that when property management personnel are on site that they have some form of identifying insignia on their shirt or similar.
Villa Miceli was private, comfortable and ideally located. Only a 5 minute walk to the beautiful beach. Spend the day meandering between the beach and the pool. Also just 10 minute walk to Commercial Blvd, the heart of LBTS with shops, bars, restaurants, night life. Location, location, location! Can't be beat.
The house has everything for family of five and Yorkie.
Villa Miceli was a great place to vacation in Lauderdale by the Sea. The location is perfect. Close to the beach, restaurants and the grocery store. The pool was also very nice and it was great to have the choice between the beach and the pool. The pool was well attended, kept clean and warm. The house was clean and roomy. Our grill was not working the first night, a call was made and we had a new grill that day after it was determined it was not fixable. The kitchen could be stocked with supplies a little better ie more wine glasses. A little more attention to the small details would make the house perfect.
We totally enjoyed our stay here as the home has more than enough room and is equipped with anything u may need. We r a family of 5 and we enjoyed our space, the outdoor area/pool and the area of Lauderdale by the Sea. It was super close to the beach and restaurants/shops. Any minor issues were looked after promptly. Pool/master bedroom sliding doors needed to | 505 |
Green-oriented enclave for outdoors enthusiasts includes eco department store SEED People's Market and intriguing dining options including Taco Asylum, Ecco and Old Vine Cafe. 2937 S<|fim_middle|> 21 and lots of restaurants. Palatial new Habana nuevo Latino restaurant and Havianas for leisure footwear are new. Giant Ferris wheel visible from freeways. 71 Fortune Drive, Irvine, 949.753.5180.
From Aveda to Z Gallerie: anchors Nordstrom and Macy's plus Madewell; Soma, Pea in a Pod and the Melt. 555 The Shops at Mission Viejo, Mission Viejo, 949.364.1832.
Business is brisk at Rolex, presented by Baron & Leeds, which opened its first boutique in the United States at South Coast Plaza, never mind price tags venturing well into six figures. The boutique showcases one of the world's largest selections of Rolex, more than 1,000 of the coveted timepieces. 3333 Bristol St., Costa Mesa, 714.241.8088.
LA is constantly reinventing itself. It's a vibrant city. In terms of new Los Angeles hot spots, The $50-million Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts is celebrating its inaugural season this year, after opening its doors to the public for the first time in 2013. It's Beverly Hills' first performing arts center and takes up an entire city block. Its inaugural season features theater, music and dance, including programs specially designed for a family audience. The Wallis includes two impressive buildings: the 500-seat Goldsmith Theatre and the 150-seat Lovelace Theatre. The Wallis is a beautiful theater for an intimate experience of the arts. | . Bristol St., Costa Mesa, 714.966.6661.
Shopping and dining in historic downtown Anaheim. Highlights include BarBeer Shop, a barbershop serving beer; The Good Californian Haberdashery and Gypsy Den Cafe. Center Street Promenade and Anaheim Blvd., Anaheim.
Boutiques include Diane's Beachwear, Gail Jewlers and Jack's Surfboards. Other draws: Sprinkles Cupcakes and Sprinkles Ice Cream. 800-984 Avocado Ave., Newport Beach, 949.759.8687.
Ocean views amid Tuscan setting. Upscale boutiques Coastal Cool and Atelier 7918, fine dining including Bluefin, Mastro's Ocean Club and newly relocated Marche Moderne. 7845-8085 E. Coast Hwy., Newport Coast, 949.759.8687.
Moorish-themed entertainment-retail center includes nation's most visited movie complex, Nordstrom, Forever | 222 |
Engels's Dialectics of Nature in the Anthropocene
ENVIRONMENT,<|fim_middle|> Germany, Engels's treatment of the etiology of disease in The Condition of the Working Class in England exercised an influence that extended well beyond socialist circles. Rudolf Virchow, the German doctor and pathologist, famous as the author of Cellular Pathology, referred favorably to Engels's book in his own pioneering work in social epidemiology.14
This understanding of the material conditions of capitalist class society as environmental, as well as economic, was evident in all of Engels's work. Moreover, in constantly seeking to merge materialist and dialectical perspectives of nature and society, Engels eventually arrived at the thesis that "nature," of which human beings were an emergent part, was the "proof of dialectics"—a statement that today is better understood if we say that ecology is the proof of dialectics.15
In Engels's developed evolutionary-ecological perspective, evident in his mature works such as The Dialectics of Nature and Anti-Dühring, what distinguished human beings from nonhuman animals was the role of labor in transforming and mastering the environment, making it possible for "man" to become the "real, conscious, lord of nature, because he now [in a future society] becomes master of his own social organisation."16 Nevertheless, along with this tendency toward greater mastery of nature in some respects, already exhibited under capitalism, was concealed a systematic tendency toward expanding ecological crises, since all attempts at the conquest of nature in defiance of natural laws of limits could only lead, in the end, to ecological catastrophes. This could be seen first and foremost in the mid–nineteenth century in the ecological devastation unleashed by colonialism. As he exclaimed:
What cared the Spanish planters in Cuba, who burned down forests on the slopes of mountains and obtained from the ashes sufficient fertilizer for one generation of very profitable coffee trees—what cared they that the heavy tropical rain afterwards washed away the unprotected upper stratum of the soil, leaving behind only bare rock! In relation to nature, as to society, the present mode of production is predominantly concerned only with the immediate, the most tangible result; and then surprise is expressed that the often remote effects of actions to this end turn out to be quite different, are mostly quite the opposite in character.17
For Engels, the starting point for a rational approach to the environment was to be found in Francis Bacon's famous maxim that "nature is only overcome by obeying her"—that is, by discovering and conforming to her laws.18 Yet, in Marx and Engels's view, the Baconian principle, to the extent that it was applied in bourgeois society, was primarily treated as a "ruse" for conquering nature so as to bring it under capital's laws of accumulation and competition.19 Science was made into a mere appendage of profit making, viewing nature's boundaries as mere barriers to be surmounted. Instead, the rational application of science in society as a whole was only possible in a system in which the associated producers regulated the human metabolic relation to nature on an unalienated basis, in accordance with genuine human needs and potentials and the requirements of long-term reproduction. This pointed to the contradiction between, on the one hand, science's own dialectic, which more and more recognized our "oneness with nature" and the associated need for social control, and, on the other hand, capitalism's myopic drive to accumulation ad infinitum, with its innate uncontrollability and neglect of environmental consequences.20
It was this deep, critical-materialist perspective that led Engels to stress the senselessness of the prevailing notion of the conquest of nature—as if nature were a foreign territory to be subjected at will, and as if humanity did not exist in the midst of the earth's metabolism. Such an attempt to conquer the earth could only lead to what he referred to, metaphorically, as the "revenge" of nature, as various critical thresholds (or tipping points) were crossed:
Let us not, however, flatter ourselves overmuch on account of our human victories over nature. For each such victory nature takes its revenge on us. Each victory, it is true, in the first place brings about the results we expected, but in the second and third places it has quite different, unforeseen effects which only too often cancel out the first. The people who, in Mesopotamia, Greece, Asia Minor, and elsewhere, destroyed the forests to obtain cultivable land, never dreamed that by removing along with the forests the collecting centres and reservoirs of moisture they were laying the basis for the present forlorn state of those countries. When the Italians of the Alps used up the pine forests on the southern slopes, so carefully cherished on the northern slopes, they had no inkling that by doing so they were cutting at the roots of the dairy industry in their region; they had still less inkling that they were thereby depriving their mountain springs of water for the greater part of the year, and making it possible for them to pour still more furious torrents on the plains during the rainy seasons.… Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people, like someone standing outside nature—but that we, with flesh, blood and brain, belong to nature, and exist in its midst, and that all our mastery of it consists in the fact that we have the advantage over all other creatures of being able to learn its laws and apply them correctly.21
Through conscious action in accord with rational science, human beings were capable of rising to a considerable extent above "the influence of unforeseen effects and uncontrolled forces," perceiving "the more remote consequences of our interference with the traditional course of nature." Yet, even with respect to "the most developed peoples of the present day," there could be seen to be "a colossal disproportion between the proposed aims and the results arrived at," such "that unforeseen effects predominate and…the uncontrolled forces are more powerful than those set in motion according to plan." Class-based commodity economies achieved "the desired end only by way of exception," more often producing "the exact opposite." Hence, a rational, scientific, and sustainable approach to the human relation to nature and society under capitalism was impossible.22
It is significant that this same general standpoint on capitalism and ecology articulated by Engels was to be echoed a few decades later by Ray Lankester, who was Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley's protégé, Marx's close friend (and Engel's acquaintance), and the leading British biologist in the generation after Darwin. Lankester was a Fabian-style socialist who had read and been influenced by Marx's Capital. In his 1911 book, The Kingdom of Man—which brought together his 1905 Romanes lecture at Oxford, "Nature's Insurgent Son," his 1906 presidential address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and his article "Nature's Revenges" focusing on the African sleeping sickness—Lankester insisted that the growing human dominion over the earth was giving rise, in contradictory fashion, to an increased potential for planetary-scale ecological disasters. Thus, in his chapter on "Nature's Revenges," he referred to humanity as the "disturber of Nature" and thus as the creator of periodic epidemic diseases threatening humanity along with other species. "It seems to be a legitimate view," Lankester wrote, "that every disease to which animals [including the human animal] (and probably plants also), are liable, excepting as a transient and very exceptional occurrence, is due to Man's interference."23 Moreover, this could be traced to a system dominated by "markets" and "cosmopolitan dealers in finance" who undermined any rational and scientific approach to reconcile nature and human production.24 Lankester was later to develop this argument further, writing systematically on "The Effacement of Nature by Man."25
Like the later Marx and Engels, Lankester saw the "Kingdom of Man" as ushering in a permanent ecological knife-edge state for humanity, engendered by capitalism, that would, if natural conditions were trampled over by rapacious capital accumulation, lead to catastrophic human environmental decline. If it were not to destroy the very bases of its existence, humanity therefore had no choice but to control its production, superseding the narrow dictates of capital accumulation and adopting the dictates of a rational science in line with coevolutionary development.
The Dialectics of Nature and History
Engels's ecological insights are inseparable from his inquiries into the dialectics of nature from which they arose. Yet, the very first principle of what came to be known as the philosophical tradition of Western Marxism was that the dialectic could not be said to apply to external nature, that is, there was no such thing as what Engels referred to as "so-called objective dialectics" beyond the active realm of the human subject.26 Dialectical relations, and even the objects of dialectical reasoning, were thus confined to the human-historical sphere, where the identical subject-object could be said to apply, since all nonreflexive (transfactual) reality outside of human consciousness and human action was excluded from the analysis.27 But with the complete rejection of the dialectics of nature within the Western Marxist tradition, the extraordinary power of Engels's explorations in this area and the enormous influence they exerted on evolutionary and ecological thought within the natural sciences and on Marxism were lost, except to a relatively small number of left scientists and dialectical materialists. Unable to see dialectics as related to material nature, the Western Marxist philosophical tradition tended to relegate both natural science and external nature itself to the realm of mechanism and positivism. The result was to create a deep chasm between the dominant post-Second World War conception of Marxian philosophy in the West and natural science (and between Western Marxism and the materialist conception of nature) at the very moment, ironically, that the ecological movement was emerging as a major political force.28
Restoring the insights of classical historical materialism in this area thus requires the recovery, at some level, of Engels's conception of the dialectics of nature.29 This requires, in turn, rejecting superficial and often poorly conceived summary dismissals of Engels's approach to the dialectics of nature, usually polemicizing against his three broad dialectical "laws" that he derived from G. W. F. Hegel and to which he gave new materialist significance: (1) the transformation of quantity into quality and vice versa, (2) the identity or unity of opposites, and (3) the negation of the negation.30 In writing on "Engels's Philosophy of Science," Peter T. Manicas, for example, has complained of the "very nearly vacuous" nature of these laws.31 Yet, in Engels's analysis, these were not meant as narrow, fixed laws in the positivistic sense, but, rather, in today's terminology, as broad, dialectically conceived "ontological principles," equivalent to such basic propositions as the principle of the uniformity of nature, the principle of the perpetuity of substance, and the principle of causality. In fact, Engels's approach to dialectics challenged in various ways the understanding of these very same principles as they were advanced by the science of his day.32
Perhaps the most succinct and penetrating assessment of Engels's contributions to the dialectics of nature provided by a natural scientist can be found in a 1936 pamphlet entitled Engels as a Scientist by the celebrated Marxist scientist J. D. Bernal, professor of physics and x-ray crystallography at Birkbeck College, University of London. Bernal depicted Engels as a philosopher and historian of science, one who could not "be said to have been an amateur" given the range of the scientific contacts he had developed in Manchester, and who had reached a level of analysis that far exceeded that of the professional philosophers of science of his day, such as Herbert Spencer and William Whewell in England and Friedrich Lange in Germany.33 Behind Engels's deep understanding of the historical development of science in his time, according to Bernal, was a dialectical perception in which the "concept of nature was always as a whole and as a process."34 In this, Engels had borrowed critically from Hegel, recognizing that behind the latter's idealist presentation of dialectical change in his Logic were processes that could be said to inhere objectively in nature, as captured in human cognition.
In addressing the first of the three dialectical "laws" or ontological principles that Engels had drawn from Hegel—how changes in quantity can lead to qualitative transformations and its opposite—Bernal emphasized its essential character for natural scientific thought. "With remarkable insight, Engels says:—'The so-called constants of physics are for the most part nothing but designations of nodal points where quantitative addition or withdrawal of motion calls forth a qualitative change in the state of the body in question'.… We are only now beginning to appreciate the essential justice of these remarks and the significance of such nodal points." In this regard, Bernal stressed Engels's reference to Dmitri Mendeleev's periodic table as exemplary of qualitative transformations arising from continuous quantitative changes, as well as the relation of Engels's basic notions to discoveries associated with the rise of quantum theory.35 Engels's approach, as the British Marxist mathematician Hyman Levy indicated, pointed to the concept of "phase change" as employed in modern physics.36
Today, we know that this dialectical principle holds for biology as well. For example, increasing population density of microorganisms (a quantitative increase) can cause a change in genetic expression, leading to the formation of something new (a qualitative change). As bacterial populations increase, the signals (chemicals) emitted by each organism accumulate to a level that activates genes, leading to the production of a mucilaginous biofilm phase in which the organisms become embedded. Biofilms may be composed of a number of organisms and attach organisms to almost any surface, from water pipes to rocks in streams to teeth to soil roots.37
Engels's second law, the interpenetration of opposites, was more difficult to define in an operational sense, but still of supreme importance for scientific inquiry. In Bernal's explanation, this stood for two related principles: (1) "everything implies its opposite" and (2) there were "no hard and fast lines in nature." Engels illustrated the latter point by referring to Lankester's famous discovery that the horseshoe crab (Limulus) was an arachnid, part of the spider and scorpion family, a revelation that had startled the scientific world and threw previous biological classifications askew.38 In his application of this dialectical principle to physics and to the question of matter and movement (or energy), Bernal contended, "Engels approached very close to the modern ideas of relativity."39 Engels's notion of the unity of opposites is often seen in today's Marxian dialectics in terms of the role of internal relations, in which at least one of the relata is dependent on the other.40 As Engels himself observed, the recognition that mechanical relations with "their imagined rigidity and absolute validity have been introduced into nature only by our reflective minds…is the kernel of the dialectical conception of nature."41
The negation of the negation, Engel's third informal dialectical law, which, as Bernal noted, seemed so paradoxical in mere words, was meant to convey that, in the course of its historical development or evolution over time, anything within the objective world is bound to generate something different, a new emergent reality, representing new material relations and emergent levels, often through the action of recessive factors or residual elements, previously overcome, that still inhere in the present. Material existence as a whole could be seen as leading to a hierarchy of organizational levels, while transformative change often meant the shift from one organizational level to another, as in the seed to the plant.42
The development of what are called "emergent properties" is now considered a basic biological and ecological concept. In an ecological context, it occurs when communities of species interact in ways that produce new characteristics, mostly unpredicted, arising from the behavior of the individual species in the community.43 A four-acre farm field with a mixture of four different species (a polyculture) may lead to higher total yield than four acres devoted to only growing each of the individual species separately. This can occur for a variety of reasons: for example, better use of sunlight and water, and decreased insect damage in the polyculture field.
Coevolution of organisms also produces new properties. For example, over evolutionary time, insects feeding on plant leaves lead to the development of numerous defense mechanisms in plants. These include producing chemicals that inhibit the insect's feeding and emitting chemicals that recruit organisms (frequently small wasps) that lay their eggs in the insect, which is then killed as the eggs develop. But the back and forth continues. In at least one instance, that of the tomato hornworm caterpillar, the wasp has also to inject a virus that deactivates the caterpillar's immune system to enable the wasp's eggs to develop. Evolution is constantly creating something different, sometimes dramatically, as organisms interact. In some cases, this leads to fundamental changes in whole ecosystems and the rise of new dominant species in particular environments. As Engels wrote, emergence, in the sense of "the negation of the negation, really does take place in both [plant and animal] kingdoms of the natural world."44
As a historian of science, Engels, according to Bernal, was remarkable in his insights into the three great scientific revolutions of the nineteenth century: (1) thermodynamics—the laws of the conservation and interchangeability of forms of energy, and of entropy; (2) the analysis of the organic cell and the development of physiology; and (3) Darwin's theory of evolution based on natural selection by innate variation.45 As Ilya Prigogine, winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was later to observe, Engels's great insight was to recognize that these three revolutions in physical science "rejected the mechanistic worldview" and drew "closer to the idea of an historical development of nature."46
In Bernal's account, among Engels's concerns was the pursuit of "the synthesis of all the processes affecting life, animal ecology, and [biological] distribution."47 What made this synthesis possible was his conception of dialectical movement and change, emphasizing the complexity of material interactions and the introduction of new emergent powers, in a process of origin, development, and decline. "The central idea in Dialectical Materialism," Bernal declared, "is that of transformation.… The essential task of the materialist dialectic is the explanation of the qualitatively new," uncovering the conditions governing the emergence of a new "organizational hierarchy."48
In this respect, Engels's pioneering achievement was to utilize his dialectical conception of nature to throw light on all four materialist problems of "origin" that remained after Darwin: (1) the origin of the universe (which Engels insisted was a self-origin as envisioned in the nebular hypothesis of Immanuel Kant and Pierre-Simon Laplace); (2) the origin of life (in which Engels refuted Justus von Liebig's and Hermann Helmholtz's notion of the eternity of life and pointed instead to a chemical origin focusing on the complex of chemicals underlying the protoplasm, particularly proteins); (3) the origin of human society (in which Engels went further than any other thinker of his time in explaining the evolution of the hand and tools through labor, and with them the brain and language, anticipating later discoveries in paleoanthropology); and (4) the origin of the family (in which he explained the original matrilineal basis of the family and the rise of the patriarchal family with private property).49
In this way, Engels, Bernal insisted, had anticipated or prefigured many of the developments in materialist science. "Engels, who welcomed the principle of the conversion of one form of energy into another, would equally have welcomed the transformation of matter into energy. Motion as the mode of existence of matter [Engels's great postulate] would here acquire its final truth."50 As Bernal noted elsewhere, Engels "saw more clearly than most distinguished physicists of his time the importance of energy and its inseparability from matter. No change in matter, he declared, could occur without a change in energy, and vice versa.… [The] substitution of motion for force which Engels battles for throughout was the starting-point of Einstein's own criticism of mechanics."51
Yet, it was the broad perspective on ecology emanating from Engels's dialectics that constituted the most critical insight of the Dialectics of Nature and is the reason why a return to Engels's way of reasoning remains so important. As Bernal argued, one of Engels's crucial contributions was his critique of notions of the absolute human conquest of nature. Engels had powerfully diagnosed the failure of human society, and particularly of the capitalist mode of production, to foresee the ecological consequences of its actions, tracing "the effects of undesired physical consequences of human interference with nature such as cutting down forests and the spreading of deserts."52
Other leading British socialist scientists of the 1930s and '40s were equally impressed by Engels's ecological warnings. For the great biochemist and science historian Joseph Needham, Engels could be described as someone for "whom nothing escaped." Engels thus pointed out that, in Needham's words, "a time may some day come when the struggle of mankind against the adverse conditions of life on our planet will have become so severe that further social evolution will become impossible," referring to the eventual extinction of the human species.53 For Needham, such a critical standpoint, which rejected the crude hypothesis of linear progress, also served to illuminate the extraordinary waste and ecological destruction of capitalist society—where coffee was grown to feed locomotive fireboxes. This raised the question of a "thermodynamic interpretation of justice" since the alienation of nature (including the alienation of energy), as Engels had intimated, was "squandering" real human possibilities in the present and future.54
Biologist J. B. S. Haldane—one of the two leading British figures (along with R. A. Fisher) in the neo-Darwinian synthesis, reconciling Darwinian biology with the revolution in genetics—saw Engels as "the chief source" of materialist dialectics. Comparing Engels to Charles Dickens in relation to the Industrial Revolution, Haldane emphasized that Engels saw deeper and further. "Dickens had a first-hand knowledge of these conditions [of poverty and pollution]. He described them with burning indignation and in great detail. But his attitude was one of pity rather than hope. Engels saw the misery and the degradation of the workers, but he saw through it. Dickens never suggested that if they were to be saved they must save themselves. Engels saw that this was not only desirable but inevitable."55
The recognition of the importance of Engels's dialectics of nature has extended into our own times. Harvard biologists Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin were to dedicate their now classic work The Dialectical Biologist to Engels, drawing heavily, if somewhat critically at points, on his analysis.56 Levins and Lewontin's Harvard colleague, paleontologist and evolutionary theorist Stephen Jay Gould, was to observe that Engels provided the best nineteenth-century case for gene-culture coevolution—that is, the best explanation of human evolution in Darwin's own lifetime, given that gene-culture coevolution is the form that all coherent theories of human evolution must take.57
It was Engels's development of a dialectics of emergence that was ultimately to prove most revolutionary. The significance of this perspective—ontologically, epistemologically, methodologically—was captured by Needham in his own pathbreaking analysis of "integrative levels" (or emergence) in Time, the Refreshing River (a title that referred back to the great ancient materialist, Heraclitus):
Marx and Engels were bold enough to assert that it [the dialectical process] happens actually in evolving nature itself, and that the undoubted fact that it happens in our thought about nature is because we and our thought are part of nature. We cannot consider nature otherwise than as a series of levels of organisation, a series of dialectical syntheses. From the ultimate particle to atom, from atom to molecule, from molecule to colloidal aggregate, from aggregate to living cell, from cell to organ, from organ to body, from animal body to social association, the series of organisational levels is complete. Nothing but energy (as we now call matter and motion) and the levels of organisation (or the stabilised dialectical syntheses) at different levels have been required for the building of our world.58
Engels in the Anthropocene
It is widely recognized in contemporary science (though not yet official) that the Holocene epoch in geological time, extending back almost twelve thousand years, has come to an end, beginning in the 1950s, displaced by the current Anthropocene epoch. The onset of the Anthropocene was brought about by a Great Acceleration in the anthropogenic impacts on the environment, such that the scale of the human economy has now come to rival the major biogeochemical cycles of the planet itself, resulting in rifts in the planetary boundaries that define the Earth System as a safe home for humanity.59 The Anthropocene thus stands for what Lankester had earlier called the "Kingdom of Man," in the critical sense in which this was meant: that is, humanity was increasingly the "disturber" of the natural environment on a planetary scale. Hence, society had no choice but to seek the rational application of science, and thus the overturning of a social order in which science has been relegated to a mere means by which "treasure and luxury are opened to capitalists."60 What this meant, in Engels's (and Marx's) more forceful terms, was that the condition for the rational regulation of the metabolism between humanity and nature, and hence the rational application of science, was the transformation of the mode of production and distribution. Any other course invited the accumulation of catastrophe.61
It is in the Anthropocene that Engels's dialectic of ecology can be seen as finally coming into its own. It is here that his emphasis on the interdependence of everything in existence, the unity of opposites, internal relations, discontinuous change, emergent evolution, the reality of ecosystem and climate destruction, and the critique of linear notions of progress can all be seen as essential to the very future of humanity and the earth as we know it. Engels was acutely aware that in modern scientific conceptions "the whole of nature also is now merged in history, and history is only differentiated from natural history as the evolutionary process of self-conscious organisms."62 Insofar as humanity was alienated from its own labor and production process, and therefore from its metabolism with nature, this could only mean the destruction of nature as well as society. The quantitative growth of capital led to a qualitative transformation of the human relation to the earth itself, which only a society of associated producers could rationally address. This was related to the fact that a particular qualitative mode of production (such as capitalism) was associated with a specific matrix of quantitative demands, while a qualitatively transformed mode of production (as in socialism) could lead to a very different quantitative matrix.
Engels argued that capitalism was "squandering" the world's natural resources, including fossil fuels.63 He indicated that urban pollution, desertification, deforestation, exhaustion of the soil, and (regional) climate change were all the result of unplanned, uncontrolled, destructive forms of production, most evident in the capitalist commodity economy. In line with Marx, and Liebig, he pointed to London's enormous sewage problem as a manifestation of the metabolic rift, which removed the nutrients from the soil and shipped them one-way to the overcrowded cities where they became a source of pollution.64 He underscored the class basis of the spread of the periodic epidemics of smallpox, cholera, typhus, typhoid, tuberculosis, scarlet fever, whooping cough, and other contagious diseases that were affecting the environmental conditions of the working class, along with poor nutrition, overwork, exposure to toxics at work, and workplace injuries of all kinds. He highlighted, based on the new science of thermodynamics, that historical ecological change was irreversible and that humanity's own survival was ultimately in question.65 In terms of the current relations of production and the environment, he wrote of a society faced with ruin or revolution. The social murder of workers in urban environments and the famines in colonial Ireland and India were seen as indications of the extreme exploitation, ecological degradation, and even wholesale extermination of populations just below the surface of capitalist society.66
On all these bases, Engels, like Marx, argued that the human metabolism with nature should be regulated by associated producers in conformity to (or in coevolution with) nature's laws as understood by science, while fulfilling individual and collective needs. Such a rational application of science, however, was impossible under capitalism. Nor was development itself controllable under capitalism, since it was based on immediate, individual gain. To implement a comprehensive, rational scientific approach in line with human needs and sustainable environmental conditions required a society in which a system of long-term planning in the interest of the chain of human generations could be put into operation.67
Implicit in Engels's analysis from the very beginning was a notion of what we can call the environmental proletariat. Thus, while capitalism was concerned with the "political economy of capital," the working class in its most oppressed and also in its most radical phases was concerned with the entirety of existence, always starting from elemental needs. To call the objectives of workers a "political economy of the working class," as Marx once did, may not be wrong, but it would be more correct in today's terminology to say that workers, in their more revolutionary struggles, are primarily striving to create a new political ecology of the working class, concerned with their whole environment and basic living conditions, which can only be achieved on a communal basis.68 It was this that was captured so well in Engels's Condition of the Working Class in England, where he systematically exposed the pollution of air and water, the contaminated sewers, the adulterated food, the lack of nutrition, the toxics at work, the frequent injuries, and the high morbidity and mortality of the working class—and saw the struggle for socialism as the only genuine way forward.
Indeed, The Condition of the Working Class in England raised issues that are now once again coming to the fore in the Anthropocene. For Marx, Engels's youthful work was to exert an enduring influence leading him to designate "periodical epidemics" as a manifestation of the metabolic rift alongside the destruction of the soil. Many pages of Capital were devoted simply to attempting to update Engels's epidemiological analysis decades later.69 Today, in the context of the pandemic represented by COVID-19, these insights take on a renewed importance as a place from which to begin in the long revolution for an ecosocialist world.70 Yet, to bring such analyses forward, it is necessary to explore a dialectical science (and art) rooted in a conception of the complex "oneness" of humanity and nature.
All Things Are Sold
Engels admired the poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, whom he considered a "genius." He wrote in his youth of "a tenderness and originality in the depiction of nature such as only Shelley can achieve."71 In the opening stanzas of Shelley's Mont Blanc, we find a materialist dialectics of nature and mind not unlike Engels's own:
The everlasting universe of things
Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves,
Now dark—now glittering—now reflecting gloom—
Now lending splendour, where from secret springs
The source of human thought its tribute brings
Of waters—with a sound but half its own72
Like Shelley, who in Queen Mab wrote of bourgeois society's alienation of nature along with love—"All things are sold: the very light of Heaven / Is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love"—Engels saw the deep need for the reconciliation of humanity with nature, which only a revolution could bring.73
↩ Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Collected Works , vol. 25 (New York: International Publishers, 1975), 459.
↩ Paul Blackledge, Friedrich Engels and Modern Social and Political Theory (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019), 16.
↩ Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings , vol. 4, 1938–1940 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003), 402; Michael Löwy, Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's "On the Concept of History" (London: Verso, 2001), 66–67.
↩ Marx and Engels, Collected Works , vol. 25, 145–46, 153, 270; Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Ireland and the Irish Question (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1971), 142.
↩ Locomotive boiler explosions due to defective and maladjusted safety valves were common in the mid–nineteenth century. Locomotive engineers under time pressures often wedged or fastened down the safety valves, thereby jamming the safety valves on the train, which did not open, or which they were unable physically to open in time. See Christian H. Hewison, Locomotive Boiler Explosions (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1983), 11, 18–19, 36, 49, 54–56, 82, 85, 110.
↩ Marx and Engels, Collected Works , vol. 25, 459; John Bellamy Foster, "Capitalism and the Accumulation of Catastrophe," Monthly Review 63, no. 7 (December 2011): 5–7; Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) IV/31 (Amsterdam: Akadamie Verlag, 1999), 512–15.
↩ Marx and Engels, Collected Works , vol. 25, 167; Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) IV/18 (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2019), 670–74, 731 (excerpts by Marx); Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World (London: Verso, 2001); Marx and Engels, Ireland and the Irish Question .
↩ On the notion of extreme productivism and, in this sense, Prometheanism, as well as its almost complete absence in Marx and Engels's thought, see John Bellamy Foster, The Ecological Revolution (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2009), 226–29.
↩ Marx and Engels, Collected Works , vol. 25, 269. For Marx and Engels, it should be noted, productive forces refer to more than simply technology. Thus, Marx insisted that the most important instrument or force of production was human beings themselves. Hence, expansion of the forces of production meant the expansion of human productive skills and powers. See Marx and Engels, Collected Works , vol. 6, 211; Paul A. Baran, The Longer View (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1969), 59.
↩ Walt Rostow, The World Economy (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1978), 47-48, 659–62.
↩ On sustainable human development as a framework governing both Marx's and Engels's thought, see Paul Burkett, "Marx's Vision of Sustainable Human Development," Monthly Review 57, no. 5 (October 2005): 34–62.
↩ Eleanor Leacock, introduction to The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State , by Frederick Engels (New York: International Publishers, 1972), 245.
↩ Marx and Engels, Collected Works , vol. 4, 394, 407; Ian Angus, "Cesspools, Sewage, and Social Murder," Monthly Review 70, no. 3 (July–August 2018): 38; John Bellamy Foster, The Return of Nature (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2020), 182–95.
↩ Howard Waitzkin, The Second Sickness (New York: Free Press, 1983), 71–72.
↩ Marx and Engels, Collected Works , vol. 25, 23; Foster, The Return of Nature , 254.
↩ Marx and Engels, Collected Works , vol. 25, 270.
↩ Marx and Engels, Collected Works , vol. 25, 463–64.
↩ Francis Bacon, Novum Organum (Chicago: Open Court, 1994), 29, 43.
↩ Marx and Engels, Collected Works , vol. 25, 461; Karl Marx, Grundrisse (London: Penguin, 1973), 409–10.
↩ Marx and Engels, Collected Works , vol. 25, 330–31, 461.
↩ Ray Lankester, The Kingdom of Man (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1911), 1–4, 26, 31–33; Foster, The Return of Nature , 61–64.
↩ Lankester, The Kingdom of Man , 31; Joseph Lester, Ray Lankester and the Making of Modern British Biology (Oxford: British Society for the History of Science, 1995), 163–64.
↩ Ray Lankester, Science from an Easy Chair (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1913), 365–69.
↩ Marx and Engels, Collected Works , vol. 25, 492. The criticism of Engels on the dialectics of nature had its origins in footnote 6 of Georg Lukács's History and Class Consciousness , though Lukács, as he later explained, never fully abandoned the notion of a "merely objective dialectics" and was to promote such a naturalistic dialectic, based on Marx more than Engels, in his later thought. Nevertheless, the rejection of the dialectics of nature became axiomatic for Western Marxism beginning in the 1920s, taking a stronger hold in the post-Second World War period. Georg Lukács, History and Class Consciousness (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1971), 24, 207. See also Russell Jacoby, "Western Marxism," in A Dictionary of Marxist Thought , ed. Tom Bottomore (Oxford: Blackwell, 1983), 523–26; Foster, The Return of Nature , 11–22. On the general conflict regarding Engels within contemporary Marxism, see Blackledge, Frederick Engels and Modern Social and Political Theory , 1–20.
↩ As Roy Bhaskar has argued, the necessity to consider the intransitive or the realm of transfactuality establishes the distinction between the epistemological and the ontological, against the tendency within much of contemporary philosophy, including the Western Marxist philosophical tradition, to promote the epistemological fallacy, characteristic of idealism, in which ontology is subsumed within epistemology. Adherence to the epistemological fallacy would make any consistent materialism or natural science impossible. Roy Bhaskar, Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom (London: Verso, 1993), 397, 399–400, 405.
↩ This can be seen in Alfred Schmidt's The Concept of Nature in Marx , published in 1962, the same year as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring . Schmidt's work, a product of the Frankfurt School (influenced particularly by his mentors Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno) for the most part denied the dialectics of nature and any reconciliation of humanity with nature on the very cusp of the emergence of the modern environmental movement. Alfred Schmidt, The Concept of Nature in Marx (London: Verso, 1970).
↩ This and the following six paragraphs are adapted from Foster, The Return of Nature , 379–81.
↩ Peter T. Manicas, "Engels's Philosophy of Science," in Engels After Marx , ed. Manfred B. Steger and Terrell Carver (University Park: Pennsylvania University Press, 1999), 77.
↩ Craig Dilworth, "Principles, Laws, Theories, and the Metaphysics of Science," Synthese 101, no. 2 (1994): 223–47. The principle of uniformity (or uniformitarianism), most closely associated with Charles Lyell, was challenged by Darwin's concept of evolution, though Darwin's gradualism downplayed the conflict. Stephen Jay Gould and paleontologist Niles Eldredge were to challenge uniformitarianism much more radically in their theory of punctuated equilibrium in the 1980s. See Richard York and Brett Clark, The Science and Humanism of Stephen Jay Gould (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2011), 28, 40–42. The traditional notion of the perpetuation of substance was challenged in Engels's day by the development of the concept of energy in physics. In relation to both of these ontological principles and the principle of causality, where he addressed the complex interchange of cause and effect, Engels's dialectical "laws" or ontological principles not only captured the revolutionary changes taking place in the science of his day, but in various ways prefigured later discoveries. On Engels's views of causality, see Marx and Engels, Collected Works , vol. 25, 510.
↩ D. Bernal, Engels and Science (London: Labour Monthly Pamphlets, 1936), 1–2.
↩ Bernal, Engels and Science , 5.
↩ Bernal, Engels and Science , 5–7; Marx and Engels, Collected Works , vol. 25, 359 (translation follows Bernal).
↩ Hyman Levy, A Philosophy for a Modern Man (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938), 30–32, 117, 227–28.
↩ This paragraph was written by Fred Magdoff. See also Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams, Creating an Ecological Society (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2017), 215.
↩ Marx and Engels, Collected Works , vol. 25, 326, 507; E. Ray Lankester, "Limulus an Arachnid," Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science 2 (1881): 504–48, 609–49; Foster, The Return of Nature, 56, 249.
↩ Bernal, Engels and Science , 7–8, J. D. Bernal, "Dialectical Materialism," in Aspects of Dialectical Materialism , by Hyman Levy et al. (London: Watts and Co., 1934), 107–8.
↩ Bernal, Engels and Science , 7; Foster, The Return of Nature , 242.
↩ Bernal, Engels and Science , 7; Marx and Engels, Collected Works , vol. 25, 14.
↩ All three of Engels's informal laws of dialectics can be seen as related to emergence, particularly the first and the third. Engels's third informal law, negation of the negation, as Roy Bhaskar argued in Dialectics: Pulse of Freedom , "raises the issue of absenting absences and the reassertion of lost or negated elements of reality. Bernal developed an analysis of the negation of the negation in terms of the role of residuals that reemerge and transform relations through complex evolutionary processes." Roy Bhaskar, Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom (London: Verso, 1993), 150–52, 377–78; Bernal, "Dialectical Materialism," 103–4.
↩ This and the following paragraph were drafted nearly in their entirety by Fred Magdoff.
↩ Bernal, Engels and Science , 8–10; Friedrich Engels, Ludwig Feuerbach and the Outcome of Classical German Philosophy (New York: International Publishers, 1941), 65–69.
↩ Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers, Order Out of Chaos (New York: Bantam, 1984), 252–53.
↩ Bernal, "Dialectical Materialism," 90, 102, 107, 112–17.
↩ Bernal, Engels and Science , 10–12. With respect to Engels on the origins of life, Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin wrote that "dialectical materialism has focused [necessarily] mostly on some selected aspects of realty. At times we have emphasized the materiality of life against vitalism, as when Engels said that life was the motion of 'albuminous bodies' (i.e. proteins; now we might say macro-molecules). This seems to be in contradiction to our rejection of molecular reductionism, but simply reflects different moments in an ongoing debate where the main adversaries were first the vitalist emphasis on the discontinuity between the inorganic and living realms, and then the reductionist erasure of the real leaps of levels." Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins, Biology Under the Influence (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2007), 103.
↩ Bernal, Engels and Science , 13–14.
↩ D. Bernal, The Freedom of Necessity (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1949), 362.
↩ Bernal, The Freedom of Necessity , 364–65.
↩ Joseph Needham, Time, the Refreshing River (London: George Allen, and Unwin, 1943), 214–15; Engels, Ludwig Feuerbach , 12.
↩ Needham, Time, the Refreshing River , 214–15; Marx and Engels, Collected Works , vol. 46, 411.
↩ B. S. Haldane, The Marxist Philosophy and the Sciences (New York: Random House, 1939), 199–200; Foster, The Return of Nature , 391.
↩ Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin, The Dialectical Biologist (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985).
↩ Stephen Jay Gould, An Urchin in the Storm (New York: W. W. Norton, 1987), 111–12.
↩ Needham, Time, the Refreshing River , 14–15. Engels wrote: "It is precisely the alteration of nature by men, not solely nature as such, which is the most essential and immediate basis of human thought." Marx and Engels, Collected Works , vol. 25, 511.
↩ See John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and Richard York, The Ecological Rift (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2010), 13–18; Ian Angus, Facing the Anthropocene (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2016); Clive Hamilton, Defiant Earth (Cambridge: Polity, 2017).
↩ Lester, Ray Lankester , 164.
↩ John Bellamy Foster, "Capitalism and the Accumulation of Catastrophe," 1–2, 15–16. Foster, The Return of Nature , 64, 286–87.
↩ Frederick Engels, The Housing Question (Moscow: Progress Publishers. 1975), 92.
↩ On Engels's approach to thermodynamics, see John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett, Marx and the Earth (Chicago: Haymarket, 2016), 137–203.
↩ On Marx and Engels on ecological degradation and extermination in colonial Ireland, see John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark, The Robbery of Nature (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2020), 64–77.
↩ Engels made it clear that the rational regulation of the human relation to nature, and thus a rational application of science, was only possible with "a complete revolution in our hitherto existing mode of production." Marx and Engels, Collected Works , vol. 25, 462. On the alienation of science under capitalism, see István Mészáros, Marx's Theory of Alienation (London: Merlin, 1975), 101–2. The role of science under capitalism is further clarified in Richard Levins's notion of the "dual nature of science." Richard Levins, "Ten Propositions on Science and Antiscience," Social Text 46–47 (1996): 103–4. The uncontrollability of capital is theorized in István Mészáros, Beyond Capital (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1995), 713.
↩ Karl Marx, On the First International , ed. Saul Padover (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973), 10.
↩ See Foster, The Return of Nature , 197–204.
↩ John Bellamy Foster and Istvan Suwandi, "COVID-19 and Catastrophe Capitalism," Monthly Review 72, no. 2 (June 2020): 3–4.
↩ Marx and Engels, Collected Works , vol. 2, 95–101, 497; vol. 4, 528. Engels's admiration for Shelley led him to attempt to translate Queen Mab , along with The Sensitive Plant , into German. See John Green, Engels: A Revolutionary Life (London: Artery, 2008) 28–29, 59. For a fascinating treatment of Shelley's revolutionary poetry and politics, see Annette Rubinstein, The Great Tradition in English Literature (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1953), 516–64.
↩ Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Poetical Works (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1914), 528.
↩ Shelley, Complete Poetical Works , 773. Marx depicted Shelley as "essentially a revolutionist," a view that Engels shared. Edward Aveling and Eleanor Marx Aveling, Shelley's Socialism (London: The Journeyman, 1975), 4.
The author would like to thank Fred Magdoff for his help at several points in this article.
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In "The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man" from his Dialectics of Nature, Frederick Engels declared: "Everything affects and is affected by every other thing."1 Today, two hundred years after his birth, Engels can be seen as one of the foundational ecological thinkers of modern times. If Karl Marx's theory of the metabolic rift is at the heart of historical-materialist ecology today, it nonetheless remains true that Engels's contributions to our understanding of the overall ecological problem remain indispensable, rooted in his own deep inquiries into nature's universal metabolism, which reinforced and extended Marx's analysis. As Paul Blackledge has stated in a recent study of Engels's thought, "Engels's conception of a dialectics of nature opens a place through which ecological crises" can be understood as rooted in "the alienated nature of capitalist social relations."2 It is because of the very comprehensiveness of his approach to the dialectic of nature and society that Engels's work can help clarify the momentous challenges facing humanity in the Anthropocene epoch and the current age of planetary ecological crisis.
Racing to Ruin
Some intimation of the contemporary significance of Engels's ecological critique can be gained by commencing with Walter Benjamin's celebrated 1940 aside, often quoted by ecosocialists, from the "Paralipomena" (or side notes) to his "On the Concept of History." There, Benjamin stated: "Marx says that revolutions are the locomotive of world history. But perhaps it is quite otherwise. Perhaps revolutions are an attempt by passengers on this train—namely, the human race—to activate the emergency brake." In Michael Löwy's well-known interpretation of Benjamin's statement: "The image suggests implicitly that if humanity were to allow the train to follow its course—already mapped out by the steel structure of the rails—and if nothing halted its headlong dash, we would be heading straight for disaster, for a crash or a plunge into the abyss."3
Benjamin's dramatic image of a runaway locomotive and, hence, the necessity of conceiving of revolution as a pulling of the emergency brake, recalled a similar passage in Engels's Anti-Dühring, written in the late 1870s, a work with which Benjamin, like all socialists in his day, was familiar. Here, Engels had indicated that the capitalist class was "a class under whose leadership society is racing to ruin like a locomotive whose jammed safety-valve the driver is too weak to open." It was precisely capital's inability to control "the productive forces, which have grown beyond its power," including the destructive effects imposed on its natural and social "environs," that was "driving the whole of bourgeois society towards ruin, or revolution." Hence, "if the whole of modern society is not to perish," Engels argued, "a revolution in the mode of production and distribution must take place."4
Engels's earlier metaphor differed slightly from Benjamin's later one, in that the object was to open the safety valve in order to prevent a boiler explosion and crash—a fairly common cause of train wrecks in the mid-to-late nineteenth century.5 If the system can be seen as "racing to ruin," revolution here is less about simply stopping the forward momentum than exerting control over the out-of-control forces of production. Indeed, Engels's ecological and economic argument was not predicated, as would be the case today, on the notion that there was too much production in relation to the overall carrying capacity of the earth, a perspective that was scarcely present at the time he was writing. Instead, his chief ecological concern had to do with the wanton destruction wrought by capitalism on local and regional environments—even if on an increasingly global basis. The visible effects of this were evident in industrial pollution, deforestation, the degradation of the soil, and the general deterioration of the environmental conditions (including periodic epidemics) of the working class. Engels also pointed to the devastation of whole environments (and their climates), as in the ecological destruction that played such a big role in the fall of ancient civilizations, due mainly to desertification, and the environmental damage imposed by colonialism on traditional cultures and modes of production.6 Like Marx, Engels was deeply concerned with British colonialism's "Victorian Holocausts," including the generation of famine in India through the destruction of its ecology and hydrological infrastructure, and the ruinous expropriation and extermination inflicted on Ireland's ecology and people.7
It is true that we can also find in these same pages, in which the question "ruin or revolution" is raised, the most productivist (and, in this sense, seemingly Promethean) passage to be found anywhere in Marx and Engels's works.8 Thus, Engels declared in Anti-Dühring that the advent of socialism would make possible the "constantly accelerated development of the productive forces, and…a practically unlimited increase of production itself."9 However, in the context in which Engels was writing, this presents no particular contradiction. The view that a future society, released from the irrationality of capitalist production would allow for what, by nineteenth-century standards, would have seemed like an almost unlimited development of production was of course practically universal among radical thinkers at the time. This was a natural reflection of the still low level of material development in most of the world at the time of the Industrial Revolution, when set against the still immeasurably vast scale of the earth itself. World manufacturing production was to increase by "about 1,730 times" in the hundred and fifty years between 1820, when Engels was born, at the time of the early nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution, and 1970, when the modern ecological movement was born, at the time of the first Earth Day.10 Moreover, in Engels's analysis (as in Marx's), production was never viewed as an end in itself, but rather as a mere means to the creation of a freer and more equal society, dedicated to a process of sustainable human development.11
Two centuries after his birth, the depth of Engels's understanding of the systematic nature of capitalism's destruction of the natural and social environment, together with his development of a dialectical naturalist perspective, makes it, along with Marx's work, a starting point for a revolutionary ecosocialist critique today. As Marxist anthropologist Eleanor Leacock noted, Engels, in the Dialectics of Nature, sought to develop the conceptual basis for understanding "the complete interdependence of human social relations and human relations to nature."12
The Revenge of Nature
Ecological problems are the product of the interrelation of system and scale. In Engels's analysis, it is system that is emphasized above all. In his great work, The Condition of the Working Class in England, written while he was still in his early twenties, he focused on the destructive environmental and epidemiological conditions of the Industrial Revolution in the large manufacturing towns, particularly Manchester. He highlighted the horrendous ecological conditions imposed on workers by the new industrial factory system, evident in pollution, toxic contamination, physical deterioration, periodic epidemics, poor nutrition, and high working-class mortality, all associated with extreme economic exploitation. The Condition of the Working Class in England remains unique in its powerful indictment of the "social murder" inflicted by capitalism on the underlying population at the time of the Industrial Revolution.13 Marx, for whom Engels's book was the starting point for his own epidemiological studies in Capital, was on this basis to designate "periodical epidemics," along with the destruction of the soil, as evidence of capitalism's metabolic rift. In | 1,624 |
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Pictured left to right: Jasmine Honaker (CSS Assistant Manager), Jane Mygatt (Vice President, Board Member, Buena Vista Audubon), Natalie Shapiro (Executive Director, Buena Vista Audubon), and Karina Martinez (CSS Facility Manager)
Carlsbad Self Storage's first donation went to The Buena Vista Audubon Society which was chartered in 1951 as the coastal North San Diego County chapter of the National Audubon Society and has approximately 1,300 member households. BVAS programs help foster knowledge and appreciation for the plants and animals that make up the natural ecosystem of the community.
Carlsbad Self Storage (CSS) Assistant Manager, Jasmine Honaker described the team's visit to the center. "We met with Natalie and Jane at the Buena Vista Nature Center where they gave us a tour. The nature center consists of preserved wildlife such as native birds, mammals, and reptiles. The BVAS focuses on educational programs for children as well as community conservation of native habitats. The organization relies on donations to operate and provide such educational activities."
The team at CSS appreciates the mission of The Buena Vista Audubon Society. Facility Manager, Karina Martinez added that the Buena Vista Nature Center played a big role in her elementary school days. She always looked forward to participating in the walking field trips from her school to the Nature Center. "My team would like to see the BVAS continue to provide those educational opportunities for Carlsbad children, Karina said.
The second donation was to La Posada de Guadalupe. The purpose of La Posada de Guadalupe and of Homeless Men's Services is to provide men with tools to improve their quality of life, retain their personal dignity and help welcome them back into their communities.
Pictured left to right: Jasmine Honaker (CSS Assistant Manager), La Posada staff member, and Karina Martinez (CSS Facility Manager)
Carlsbad Self Storage Facility Manager, Karina Martinez, recalled the staff visit to the shelter. "We met with Yolanda at the homeless shelter for men where she gave us a short tour. The facility offers dorm-style living with a capacity of 50 people, a serene patio area, a laundry room, as well as a food hall. We caught Mary Lise Debedts in the kitchen (pictured above). She runs the kitchen every day to provide hot meals for the men. The program assists with transportation, housing options, job opportunities, and other resources which are critical for improving quality of life. Staff meets with individuals and creates a custom agenda to achieve personal goals, allowing for the individuals to focus on their specific needs. Because the organization offers an abundance of resources, La Posada relies on donations to assist with program services."
Pictured above is Mary Lisa Debedts who provides hot meals to those in need.
As a Carlsbad native, Karina is proud to know that such programs are available in her city. "When we are in need of help, it is nice to know that our community is able to offer support and guidance," she said.
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Not all birds fly south for the winter. The ones that stay up north face a tough few months once the weather gets colder. Most of their natural food supply has been exhausted, and insects have died or gone into hibernation.
As we've said before, birds are beneficial animals, helping pollinate our flowers and feeding on potentially harmful insects. And backyard birds rely on us to help them get through the winter. You see a birdfeeder in your yard, they see a port in a storm.
With that in mind, here are a few types of birdseed New Jersey birds will enjoy feasting on this winter.
Bird Watchers Digest calls this the "hamburger of the bird world," in that pretty much any bird who visits your feeder will want to eat it. Birds enjoy the easy-to-crack shell, and the kernel inside is larger than what you'd find inside striped sunflower seeds.
Birds like peanuts as much as we do. It's full of protein, and popular with jays, chickadees, titmice, woodpeckers, cardinals and finches. Just remember that peanuts can carry harmful aflatoxins if they get wet, and can potentially attract unwanted animals – bears, deer, raccoons. If you plan to serve your birds peanuts, use smaller amounts and<|fim_middle|> by the mail. And the name is a misnomer: mealworms are actually larval beetles.
Another Bird Watchers Digest suggestion, these homemade treats can be something as simple as spreading some peanut butter onto a tree trunk. You can also try something a little more complicated: melt suet in your microwave, and pour it into an ice cube tray. Before it hardens, add bits of peanuts, fruits, or other bird foods, let it freeze, and serve the birds some cubed bird treats.
Remember to keep bird feeders at different levels of your yard to attract a variety of birds. Some birds feed in trees, others near the ground, others in shrubs.
At Mendham Garden Center, we offer bird feeders designed for specific types of birds, and four varieties of bird seed mixes.
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This food is popular with jays, doves, sparrows, blackbirds and quail. However, the warnings we gave with peanuts apply to corn as well: it develops aflatoxins if it gets wet, and it can attract more than just birds.
Birds need fat in the winter, and suet is an excellent source. If you can't find suet, ask the butcher at your local grocery store. And if you don't have a suet feeder, you can just serve it in a mesh onion bag.
A number of birds enjoy dried fruit and raisins, including robins, Baltimore orioles, eastern bluebirds and waxwings. But birds will also eat fresh fruit slices if you serve them.
These seeds have thick shells, and are popular among chickadees, doves, grosbeaks and native sparrows. Take care to keep it inside your feeder dry during wet winter weather. It can become soggy and inedible. There's a debate about what birds will or won't eat it. Some say house sparrows and blackbirds aren't fans of safflowers. You may just need to see for yourself.
Bird Watchers Digest makes the distinction between good and bad mixed seed. The bad version can include wheat, dyed seed that's only meant for pet birds, and red milo, which is something only birds in the southwest seem to eat. Good seed includes a lot of sunflower seed, cracked corn, white proso millet and peanuts. It's what you'll find at specialty bird stores or hardware/feed stores.
Nyjer is a trademarked name, and was initially called "Niger seed" after the African nation where it originated. It's also called "thistle," although it's not related to thistle plants. But no matter what you call it, these seeds are a favorite of American goldfinches, lesser goldfinches, pine siskins, indigo buntings and common redpolls.
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Amid diverse learning communities, coaches have a sensitive task
As the pool of physicians in training expands, the experiences and backgrounds that shape a learner's vantage points will vary widely. Acknowledging and planning for that is essential to educating those medical students. These vantage points also factor in the relationship an academic coach has with a trainee.
The methods that may help an academic coach effectively work with diverse medical student populations are chronicled in a chapter of "Coaching in Medical Education<|fim_middle|> keys to making a medical school coaching relationship work for you
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Jennifer Meka, PhD, is the director of cognitive skills programs at Penn State College of Medicine. She co-wrote the handbook's chapter on coaching diverse student populations.
"[As a coach], it's really important to be thinking holistically when you are working with all learners," she said. "There are a variety of different domains and experiences that come into play that can enhance a student's ability to be successful. What we can best do as coaches is work with our learners [to] identify some of those strengths and help them move forward in achieving success."
Defining diversity
Meka believes that a prospective coach needs to understand that diversity in education has a broad definition.
"When I think about diversity in education, there are so many different way that learners are diverse and we need to take into consideration all the aspects that make a learner an individual—including how they operate in an academic setting and how they approach learning," Meka said. "It's really about developing a relationship with your learner that is built on trust, acceptance and respect. I think it's a lot about asking questions. Finding out what people's past and lived experiences have been and how you can create a plan that helps people get where they want to be."
The text calls on coaches to be aware of existence of micro-inequities, conscious and subconscious patters of behaviors that devalue performance, at the individual and institutional levels. For many diverse learners, these can prove to be a consistent challenge, and it is incumbent upon a coach to help address them during coaching sessions.
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Facilitating change and success
The handbook states that "coaching is an evolving relationship of discovery for both the learner and the coach. It is this process of discovery that enhances the potential to deepen and enrich the coaching relationship and facilitates the self-actualization of the learner."
An effective coaching relationship is going to a discovery process during which the coach works with the with the learner to identify how their background impacts their information processing and tools that can help them use their life experiences and background to their benefit. The text lists two coaching techniques that can help facilitate change and success:
Appreciative inquiry is a problem-solving technique that promotes diversity as a strength and accounts for a learners identity in plans, strategies and solutions for success.
Motivational interviewing is a multi-faceted approach to helping the learner in the decision-making process by engaging them in safe space and focusing on the learner's goals and how their behaviors impact them.
Those coach-coachee interactions are best approached with an open mind by both parties. Assumptions, even those about the role an educator plays and the role a student plays, can often be counterproductive to a coaching relationship.
"Instead of assuming a student does or doesn't know something, ask them 'what do you already know about this topic,'" Meka said. "If it is in the case of debriefing a patient encounter ask them, 'what did you notice,' instead of assuming that they did or did not notice certain things."
Coaches should be aware of both organizational policies and legal protections afforded to diverse learners. If learners feels any form of discrimination, the coach must report any incidents the appropriate office or department.
The handbook recommends faculty development that focuses on diverse learners' needs and protections. Meka is encouraged by what she has seen in this arena during her work at Penn State.
"It's a culture change," she said. "We are helping people understand diversity and the role that plays within the learning environment. You start seeing and hearing things from interactions with faculty members and interactions with learners that tell us we are making progress."
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6 Tips and Tricks to Becoming a Better Spotify Listener
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Listen in High(er) Quality
If you're a Spotify Premium subscriber, you can adjust the quality of the music you're listening to. You also set the quality so that it differs between your devices. On the desktop app, click the drop-down arrow next to your account name, then go to Settings, and you can adjust the music quality to support high-quality streaming. In the mobile app, tap the gear in the top right of the app to get into Settings, then tap Music Quality. You can adjust the streaming quality of the audio files from normal (96 Kbit/s), high (160 Kbit/s), or extreme (320 Kbit/s). You can change the quality at which downloaded music is saved, too. All these quality adjustments will directly impact how many songs you can store on your device — a higher bitrate means each song will take up more space.
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Save a Song
While listening to a song you can click the plus icon (+) on the bottom left of the Now Playing screen. This adds the song to your music library (your personal collection of music). Saving a song will not download it or add it to any playlists, it simply adds it to your library. To access a saved song, go to your library (the main Spotify screen) and tap Songs. You can save albums this way too.
Download a Song
Downloading songs, playlists and podcasts are a great way to listen to Spotify when you don't have cell service or a wi-fi connection. It's probably the smart move if you know you'll be listening to the same stuff or if you're conscious of your data usage. (Just make sure you're connected to wi-fi when you're downloading.) You can't download individual songs, unfortunately, but you can add them to playlists or download the entire album that that song is on. Just click the Download button at the top of the playlist or album. You can download individual podcasts by clicking the "…" icon and then Download.
Keep Pace with Running Playlists
If you listen to music while you run and want to keep a certain pace, Spotify creates specific playlists for just that. Tap Browse in the main menu and under Genres & Moods you will find the Running playlists. While listening to these playlists, Spotify will track your steps per minute and then match the music's BPM to that pace. If the app doesn't quite get the pace exact, you can use arrows to raise or lower the tempo to match your speed.
Use Playlists Like Google Docs
Spotify has a great feature called Collaborative Playlists, which works just like it sounds. You can take any playlist, click on the three dots, and click "collaborative playlist." This turns on the feature so that anybody following the playlist, or anyone you share the link with can edit it. This is a great way to make a playlist for a party or road trip. Also, if you and a friend are always sharing music, making a collaborative playlist called To Listen or New Songs and adding new tracks to it will be easier than sending song links back and forth.
Miss That Song? Look Through Your Play History
Spotify's radio stations and playlists are a great way to discover new music, but sometimes you miss the name of the song or artist. One way to track down that song you were jamming out to is by going into Spotify's history tab. Simply click on the play queue in the desktop app, and the second tab at the top is labeled 'History.' Unfortunately, this isn't a feature in Spotify's mobile app yet, but | 609 |
This contextual addition in Wellesley, MA respects the local vernacular. The project was completed in phases. First the existing sunroom was winterized with custom fabricated arch-top windows. This room became the refuge space when the main house was renovated a year later. The new addition in back included a large family room at the ground level with a master suite and office above. The garage was reapportioned to include a new mudroom leading to the enlarged kitchen.
This lovely home in Brookline, MA needed a formal entry to match the elegant interiors. The new gabled addition features locally quarried granite quoins and archway, custom entry doors fabricated of native lumber, and recycled brick cladding on the exterior. A trio of leaded glass windows provide natural light to the entryway, and new marble flooring throughout the foyer and stair hall unifies existing and new spaces.
Interior renovations to the living room include custom furnishings, drapery, and stained glass.<|fim_middle|> exit. | The dining room features unique brass and ebony window screens, with custom-fabricated dining table, carpet, and sculpture pedestal. The lighting was developed to provide the owner with multiple "mood" settings.
Note the custom granite sink in the powder room, fabricated in one piece with the counter top.
The design for this law firm in Boston, MA included a large reception area, 4 partner offices, 12 associate offices, conference rooms, and support spaces. Custom designed millwork, furnishings, lighting and carpet are featured throughout.
This stately center-hall colonial home was expanded in all directions. From the front, a new portico marks the enlarged entryway. Existing one-story east and west wings acquired a second story. But the real fun is in the back, where a series of informal spaces were added that bring the outdoors in.
The existing ground floor living room now houses 2 pianos and was opened to a new family space that doubles as a practice room for the local choral society. The coffered ceiling, new fireplace, decorative molding details and hardwood flooring bring a traditional feel to the open plan.
This scale model depicts a contemporary addition to a 60's split-level ranch. The butterfly roof shall be used for rainwater collection, and new windows throughout the existing house and extension will blend the enlarged structure stylistically.
A home is so much more than a building. It includes the garden and extends into the neighborhood or local village. Many of my clients purchase older homes in well established neighborhoods with amenities within walking distance. Through additions and renovations the properties become uniquely their own. These principals of "green" design such as adaptive re-use and less dependence on the automobile are really just wonderful quality of life choices.
These spaces allow us to enjoy a lovely garden from the comfort of the great indoors.
This extensive addition and renovation project was completed in conjunction with Young/Goldstein Architects in Atlanta, GA. The small sanctuary was doubled in size by the extension of the nave and addition of trancepts in classic cruciform manner. The new entry, narthex and steeple give this house of worship an iconic street presence, grounded in its community.
The program for this project was fairly simple. The client needed a garage and mudroom, and the small kitchen needed to be updated and expanded. All of these functions could have been accommodated in a 1-story addition. A 2-story space was designed however, for a contextual blend with the existing 3-story structure. An airy "bonus space" above the garage shall be finished as a home studio in the future.
In all of the kitchens shown here, the cooking space is the nucleus of the home. Much the way life centered around the hearth in days of old, today's kitchens are where the modern family collects. Good design makes for pleasant interactions!
Water and sunlight, stone and glass are the materials of delight in these spaces of necessity.
A successful loft layout defines functional areas with as few walls as possible, in order to maintain an airy spaciousness. This open plan maximized natural daylight while accommodating privacy through the limited placement of space-defining partitions. Sleeping, dressing and bathing functions were clustered behind a few carefully placed walls. The 2200 square foot family-friendly loft boasts just 3 doors: one to the bathroom, plus a front and rear | 677 |
The region of Goa is often described as a pocket of paradise. As India's smallest state, it's got every ingredient for an idyllic life of laid-back sunny beaches blended with spirituality – yoga and meditation retreats a plenty! The allure of the Goa is woven with influences that also<|fim_middle|> of the suburban areas like Brampton. Sure, many of us have fallen in love Indian food but GOA takes us on a next level culinary journey. Butter chicken is not the butter chicken as we're familiar with — the flavours and the cooking techniques are tweaked and completely worth ordering that extra naan to absorb all the saucy-goodness!
Listening to Bhagwani's travel tales makes us want to pack our bags and head for the spice markets there. He shared a heartfelt moment about one of his experiences while in Goa cooking for four generations. He made a prawn curry for a great grandmother, grandmother, mother and daughter. He could see the joy of sharing his experience and his own take on a popular dish with the family. Something he says was unforgettable. Bhagwani also talks about the how the food in the area continues to evolve. With the influx of Russians, Persians and Northern Indian vacationing in the region means an introduction of new spices and flavours that are naturally blending with the cuisine in Goa. He spoke about how exciting it was to be exploring and eating on his trip and how he was inspired by what he had experienced.
Is GOA authentic? Bhagwani tells us that indeed the flavours of the region are authentic but, of course, he took the best from what he's experienced to create his own signature on the dishes.
Why Bayview Village Shopping Mall? Bhagwani had been approached several times with different spaces and was cautiously keeping an eye on the demographic within the area. Finally, he decided it was the right time and the right place.
"Goan food is normally very spicy," Bhagwani explains. "At the beginning I toned down the spices to see what the reaction would be but quickly people were asking to turn up the heat. Then I realized indeed, the people were ready for hot food."Bhagwani was trained in traditional French culinary techniques and applied that learning with Indian cuisine – explaining that he's blend the two doing Indian food the way he's always wanted to while continuing to work with the freshest local ingredients possible. Having said that, he's also incorporating dry spices that he's personally hauled back from Goa. Bhagwani has elevated Indian food. "I've personally never been more excited about opening a restaurant like this. It's been fun," said Bhagwani.
They also love the decor. When you peek inside the restaurant from the mall entrance your eyes are immediately drawn to there richness of the space. Unlike anything you've seen for a mall restaurant. Chandeliers hang from the ceilings. The rich jewel tones that reflect in the mirrored walls and the images (taken by Bhagwani himself) displayed visually tells the story of history, traditions, and culture.
GOA Indian Farm Kitchen is located at Bayview Village Shopping Centre (2901 Bayview Avenue). Open daily for lunch and dinner. | include historical ties to the Portuguese and other cultures who were captivated by the spices and vibe of the area. And the influences are reflected in the region's cuisine. This is what is so fascinating about the dishes in this part of the world and has drawn us to experience Hemant Bhagwani's newest restaurant, GOA Indian Farm Kitchen, at Bayview Village.
What's becoming a mecca for food lovers, this uptown mall is drawing attention not just from locals but others across the city. Once considered a bedroom community of retired folks in leisure suits doing their morning exercises, things are evolving and the restaurants like GOA are waking up the neighbourhood. According to chef and restauranteur Bhagwani (Kolkata Club, Amaya, Indian Street Food, Good Karma) the locals are ready, curious and willing to try something different.
Bhagwani visited Goa when he was writing his cookbook and tells us he has a real passion for bringing the complexities of the regional cuisine to the forefront. Something he says that Toronto hasn't really seen much of outside | 217 |
A previously clandestine underground uranium enrichment facility revealed by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in August 2002, and whose existence was acknowledged by Iran in February 2003<|fim_middle|>4, IR-5, and IR-6 centrifuges (as of May 2014); as of May 2014, cascade 2 contained one IR-1 centrifuge, 13 IR-4 centrifuges, one IR-5 centrifuge, and nine IR-6 centrifuges; cascade 3 contained 14 IR-1 centrifuges and ten IR-2m centrifuges; cascade 4 contained 164 IR-4 centrifuges; and cascade 5 contained 162 IR-2m centrifuges. | ; part of Iran's gas centrifuge enrichment program; facility consists of a Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant (PFEP) and a commercial-scale Fuel Enrichment Plant (FEP); construction on both facilities began in 2001; enrichment research and development activities were moved from Kalaye Electric Company to Natanz in 2003; first visited by inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in February 2003; reportedly began using domestically mined, milled, and converted uranium as feedstock in November 2008.
Centrifuges based on an early European design, allegedly Urenco design information stolen by Pakistan in the 1970s and provided to Iran by the A.Q. Khan procurement network; facility currently operates IR-1 (P-1) centrifuges and has more advanced models installed; inverters used to drive these centrifuges operate at frequencies of approximately 1,000 Hz; the P-1 is allegedly based on the CNOR and SNOR centrifuge models; the CNOR model reportedly has a throughput of about 3 SWU/year; IR-1 throughput has achieved less than a third of this output.
Centrifuge enrichment plant for the production of low-enriched uranium (LEU) enriched up to 5% U-235; first brought into operation in February 2007; had produced 11,767 kg of up to 5% U-235 through May 2014; divided into two cascade halls (Production Hall A and Production Hall B); reportedly, each cascade hall is approximately 160 meters by 170 meters; Production Hall A is designed to contain up to approximately 25,000 centrifuges in 144 cascades, divided among eight units; as of June 2014, one unit contained IR-2m centrifuges (1,008 machines), five units contain IR-1 centrifuges (15,420 machines), and the other two units do not contain any centrifuges.
Research and development facility and pilot low enriched uranium (LEU) production facility; first brought into operation in October 2003; cascade hall accommodates six centrifuge cascades; cascades 1 and 6 (164 centrifuges each) designated for the production of UF6 enriched up to 20% U-235; production of 20% U-235 began in February 2010 and was suspended in January 2014, by which date 202 kg of this material had been produced; cascades 2, 3, 4, and 5 designated for research and development, and contain IR-1, IR-2m, IR- | 588 |
By Jody Kamen-- Bat Mitzvah girl Talia Holtzman knows that "a little goes a long way" when it comes to making a difference in the lives of others. In honour of this important milestone, Talia decided it was important to give back to her community in any way she could.
"She was very curious about the idea of being a teen philanthropist and what having a Tzedakah Fund would allow her to do" explained proud mom, Ronit. So, in addition to supporting the Olivia Wise Fund, to which she feels a strong personal connection, Talia made sure to allocate some of her bat mitzvah money to open a Tzedakah Fund of her own, at the Jewish Foundation.
"I wanted to do something special in honour of my bat mitzvah. I know that I will be able to give money at any time from now forward," said Talia, understanding what it means to be a philanthropist. Talia plans to make distributions from her fund every year, like her older brother, Josh, to causes she feels passionate about.
"I have been privileged to go to camp every summer, and it something I enjoy so much<|fim_middle|> I know that I will be able to give money at any time from now forward. The items in the baskets are the little things that make camp great for me, and that gave me an opportunity to have a really personal connection at the time of my celebration.
TH: "A little bit can make a huge difference" I have been very privileged growing up, even being able to attend summer camp every summer I know is a huge privilege. I knew I wanted to give back because I can. I didn't feel as if I missed out on any presents or anything like that when making the decision to help others with some of the money from my bat mitzvah. | , I wanted to share that love with others," said Talia. Talia thought back to this past summer at camp when they experienced a week long blackout, and everybody whipped out their flashlights on cue. "It's the little things that make camp special, and when we didn't have electricity, we made our own fun with card games and by reading comic books". Talia crafted baskets for the centerpieces on her bat mitzvah party tables, filled with fuzzy yet fashionable socks, comic books, decks of cards, flashlights and batteries, among other items, help to level the playing field for kids whose parents' can't afford to go beyond the basic packing list.
"I am proud of both my children and their commitment to support programs they are passionate about, now and in the future," said Ronit — which is truly what B'nai Tzedek is all about.
Talia Holtzman: I learned about tzedakah from my parents and at school they always taught us that what small things you do for others can make a huge impact in their lives – you can change someone's life forever – that is something that always stuck with me.
BT: Why did you choose to support Jewish camping?
TH: Camp is my first home, my home away from home. I wanted to do something for camp because it has given me so much.
BT: Why did you decide to make the baskets as the centerpiece for your bat mitzvah?
TH: I wanted to do something special in honour of my bat mitzvah. | 314 |
Pair of Morgan Lewis Victories Selected as Daily Journal Top Verdicts of 2013
SAN FRANCISCO, February 13, 2014: The Daily Journal announced yesterday that two cases litigated by Morgan Lewis attorneys were selected for its "Top Verdicts of 2013" list. Wuxi Luoshe Printing & Dyeing Co. v. Standard Fiber Inc. was recognized in the "Top 10 Plaintiffs' Verdicts by Impact" category, and Andrade et. al v. P.F. Chang's China Bistro in the "Top 20 Defense Results" category. The annual list "recognizes the largest and most significant verdicts and appellate reversals handed down<|fim_middle|>ary duty, among other claims. The San Mateo County Superior Court found that the defendants had breached fiduciary duties, had converted Mr. Huang's property and had breached a written contract with Mr. Huang.
In the Andrade case, Morgan Lewis Labor and Employment Practice partner Rebecca Eisen and senior attorney Lauren Kim represented P.F. Chang's China Bistro, Inc. in a wage and hour class action suit and successfully convinced a judge from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California that the restaurant chain's employee arbitration agreements were enforceable. The plaintiffs in Andrade brought their claims as a class action under the California Labor Code and as a representative action under the California Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA), alleging that P.F. Chang's failed to provide complete, detailed wage statements. The enforceability of arbitration agreements has been a hotly contested issue in California and across the country. This decision is significant for California employment law because it affirms the enforceability of PAGA waivers in employment arbitration agreements and validates the company's entire arbitration agreement. | in California," according to The Daily Journal.
For firm client Wuxi Luoshe Printing & Dyeing Co., Ltd. and its president Zhize Huang, a Morgan Lewis team led by Litigation Practice partners Howard Holderness and Mortimer Hartwell secured an approximately $26 million damages award and the potential for $13 million in prejudgment interest in this breach of contract case involving a dispute between two business partners. In 1999, Mr. Huang had invested in bedding and textile distributor Standard Fiber Inc. Anshan Li, Standard Fiber's majority owner in 2006 allegedly sold the entire company and failed to notify Mr. Huang of the transaction or pay him proceeds from the sale. Mr. Huang filed a complaint alleging breach of contract and breach of fiduci | 161 |
Warnings/Spoliers: takes place in the future of the Ancient!John 'verse. No actual SGA cast actually appear, however, and all the spoilers are thru S8 of SG1. No real knowledge of that 'verse is actually needed either, save for the fact that some of the Ancient history is specific to that 'verse, and the Sam/Jack is<|fim_middle|>als Jack O'Neill and Samantha Carter of the United States Air Force, and we are here to speak to you today about a recently declassified military research program codenamed 'Star Gate.' Our assistants will now hand out the prepared briefing materials, but – and I cannot stress this enough – we ask that you do not ask questions until the end of our presentation. We will take the time to answer any and all questions you have, only, again, we wait until we open the floor to ask them.
JACKSON: In 1928, an artefact was uncovered by at a dig site near the Pyramid of Khufu by Professor Paul Langford. Its initial purpose and use was unknown, and it was brought back to the United States for further study. The device, which stood at 6.7 metres tall and weighed twenty-nine tonnes, was eventually discovered to contain the means of creating a stable, artificial wormhole to other devices like it throughout the Milky Way.
CARTER: The device – termed a Stargate – is part of a network of approximately three hundred thousand such devices scattered across our galaxy, allowing users to cross up to a hundred thousand light-years in a single step.
While this may seem fantastic, the United States Air Force has been using this device successfully to travel to other planets for the last sixteen years. Do the rapidly expanding breadth of the Startgate Program, this briefing only covers the first half of our operations – which is to say, the declassification of nearly all of the missions run by Stargate Command between 27 July, 1996 and 3 July, 2005. And while, yes, there are a number of significant gaps in the materials now being handed to you – especially for June 2004 onwards, – this is done, not to hide our actions from the public at large any longer, but because we felt it was best to declassify the Stargate Program incrementally, and hope to make public the rest of our operations sometime within the next twelve to twenty-four months.
JACKSON: The Stargates were created approximately sixty-five million years ago by a race of people known as the Ancients, who came to our galaxy following a thousand-year civil war in their own they called the Schisma. They settled on Earth and chose to seed life in their image upon our planet, guiding our evolution until, eventually, we reached a form not unlike their own. They also seeded the galaxy with Stargates, and sent out ships to seed both life and Stargates there as well.
The Ancients were not alone in the universe, however, and, while exceptionally scientifically advanced, were not invulnerable, and in the year 8451 BC began to experience a plague the likes of which they had never seen. After a century of trying to combat it, those of their species left this planet and this galaxy for elsewhere, leaving behind a few of their artefacts – including the Stargates – and the species they had created – humanity, or Terrans, as they called us.
In the year 8177 BC, Earth was rediscovered by alien entities – this time by a race of parasitic beings known as the goa'uld who fancied themselves gods and pretended to be characters out ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Babylonian mythology to control us.
O'NEILL: The goa'uld are power hungry bastards.
O'NEILL: But the science stuff will come later – as I understand it, we've a whole week of show and tell lined up for all interested parties. Mostly, we're here to give you the general overview at the moment, which is basically that, while, yes, we're not alone in the universe, we're more than able to take care of ourselves. We've stopped the end of the world – how many times now, Carter?
O'NEILL: See, no trouble at all. So, what do we still have to go over?
O'NEILL: Let's skip the history for now. So... cover-ups, where do we start?
JACKSON: No, that was a decommissioned satellite and the remains of the Beliskner.
CARTER: I think he means the Ha'tak with Thor's consciousness on board that showed up in '02.
JACKSON: [Frowning.] Hmm. I don't remember that one.
O'NEILL: Of course not. You were doing the whole white light thing then.
JACKSON: Which reminds me, what did we tell people about the Battle of Antarctica?
JACKSON: Huh. And people bought that one? [Jackson blinks and turns slightly, which seems to remind him that he's in a room with over two hundred people in it, almost all of whom are rapidly moving from stunned silence to variously vocal levels of disbelief.] But, er, Jack's right. There's plenty of time next week to go over the details. So, keeping that in mind, uh, are there any questions?
Current Music: Bon Iver "I can't make you love me / Nick of time"
Jack is SO naughty! Love the team vibe in this...they just need Tealc with his "Indeed."!
Teal'c actually kinda bugs me - and I honestly couldn't see him having a part in this one. But I think there may be follow-up stories to this one. | detailed in "Fratris Filii"
Notes: This is one that's been knocking around my head ever since I created the timeline... but, basically, it is the Ancient!John 'verse... 'just about 6 years from where we are in "Socii" and without any mention of Atlantis 'cause, in my head, the first 8 years of the program (minus Atlantis) would be declassified first, and then the rest (including Atlantis and Destiny) would come later. And, despite my normal chronological-stick-to-it-ness, I figured, why not? Oh, and Patefacti is roughly those who reveal in Latin.
JACKSON: Hello. [Jackson is a forty-six-year-old doctor of archaeology, anthropology, and linguistics. His suit is dark grey, his tie dark purple; his hair a greying brown. Behind wire-rimmed glasses, he blinks fastidiously for the first three minutes of his presentation, but, after that, appears to blink not enough.] I'm Doctor Daniel Jackson. To my right are Gener | 223 |
Home Life The Undertow: Frank Watkinson reminds me of a better YouTube and a...
The Undertow: Frank Watkinson reminds me of a better YouTube and a nicer internet
Daniel Cohn
You don't know who Frank Watkinson is. I don't mean that in the snotty "Oh, you haven't heard of him?" type of way; I mean, no one knows who he is, because he's just some guy. Specifically, he's an elderly English man with a YouTube channel (with about 3,700 subscribers) on which he posts a few acoustic covers a week. That's it.
I think I found his channel at some point last year when someone posted one of his covers to a Sufjan Stevens fan group I'm in. I don't know how that person found it. The video shows him, acoustic guitar in hand, singing Sufjan's 2005 ballad "Casimir Pulaski Day." That's it — uncut, unedited and untouched. His dog sleeps behind him as he fingerpicks his guitar. In the 11 months it's been on YouTube, it has become one of his most viewed covers, garnering over 11,000 views, over 1,000 likes and, most impressively, zero dislikes.<|fim_middle|>ohn@uconn.edu.
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WHUS is ready to share some local flair at the third annual Battle of the Bands | Considering the vinegar and vitriol that runs through the veins of the modern internet, to see any video with an infinite like-to-dislike "ratio" is unheard of. You'd be hard to find many dislikes at all on any of his songs, and it's not hard to understand why.
In the current zeitgeist, being on YouTube means you're building something. It's a tool used to further your career, company or channel. Scrolling through the "Trending" tab tonight, I see a new Drake song, a sponsored video game channel, a BBC video, a Formula 1 video and — well, you get the picture. YouTube used to be what the title says it is: You "tubing." Streaming yourself into the great void called online, hoping to get some eyes back. That's what makes Frank Watkinson such a special corner of this bloated website: He captures what makes this place so special to begin with. There's no ulterior motive here; It's just a guy playing music.
The comments on his videos make me smile. "I lost my father a month ago, and I find solace in your Sufjan Stevens covers. Thank you so much for the music and God bless your beautiful soul," says "with yet another review" on one. "Sorry to hear that and thank you," responds Frank. "you are so talented! Sufjan stevens is so close to my heart and all of your covers of his songs really make me teary eyed. thank you for creating beautiful music," says Isabella Kate, just below that one. "Thank you," responds Frank. There's no memes, no flame wars, no anything. It's almost like a private community, in a way.
A phrase I've heard thrown around in the past few weeks is that we need to be "alone, together," of course referring to the social distancing guidelines we need to undertake to quell the growth of COVID-19 worldwide. At first this may have seemed easy to even the most ardent introvert, but man, not doing anything takes a toll. As seamless as digital interaction is getting, it's still nothing compared to genuine human interaction. And so we all grasp in every which way, looking for anything resembling The Before Times. It's calming to know that, across the sea, there's a guy playing acoustic guitar in his home for anyone who wants to lend an ear. It reminds me that common humanity still exists.
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Daniel Cohn is the associate managing editor for The Daily Campus. He can be reached via email at daniel.c | 574 |
SULLIVAN UNIVERSITY NURSING STUDENTS, INSTRUCTORS TO PARTICIPATE IN MOCK AIRPORT DISASTER DRILL
Carla J. Carter
Dean of Nursing
ccarter@sullivan.edu
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Students and instructors from Sullivan University's College of Nursing are scheduled to participate in a drill to help prepare for emergency situations.
A total of 43 students and seven instructors from Sullivan's Associate of Science in Nursing (RN) program will take part in the full scale exercise Oct. 22 at the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. The disaster drill is being conducted by The Louisville Regional Airport Authority, The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Transportation Security Administration<|fim_middle|>9-4500 for questions about the accreditation of Sullivan University or visit them online at www.sacscoc.org. | (TSA).
"The exercise will test the preparedness for a major event that, if real, will require response from many participating agencies at the local, state and federal levels," the airport said in a statement on its website.
Most of the Sullivan students are expected to play victims of the disaster with instructors observing and directing care as needed, said Sullivan University Dean of Nursing Carla Carter.
"The students are happy to participate," Carter said. "We are volunteering because community nursing is another focus in nursing and this drill will expose the students to community nursing and preparing for mass injury patients."
The airport is instructing volunteers to not wear nice clothing.
"It is possible that your clothes may become soiled or torn," the airport said in the statement. "Volunteers will generally be used to play the role of an ill, injured, walking wounded, deceased victim, or family member. Some volunteers may be asked to lie on the ground or pavement, slump down in a specific position … walk in a manner suggesting a limp or injury, apply makeup to simulate an injury, climb up or down stairs, or receive simulated patient care."
Sullivan University is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award Associate, Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral degrees. Contact the Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097, call 404-67 | 293 |
Directory of Animal Life Resources
Home > Regional > North America > United States > Texas > Science and Environment > Animal Life
Websites about animals (including mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, insects, mollusks, etc.) living wild in Texas, whether native or introduced.
Herping the Trans-Pecos
http://herpo.com/trans-pecos/
A pictorial tour of the reptiles and amphibians of the Trans-Pecos and other areas of West Texas.
Mammals of Texas
http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/tmot1/
Guide to the 181 species of Texas mammals, based on Davis and Schmidly's classic printed handbook.
Richard Moore Outdoors
http://www.richardmooreoutdoors.com/
Richard Moore has spent a lifetime capturing video footage of an assortment of wildlife found across South Texas and Northern Mexico. Richard Moore Outdoors brings this video collection to the.
Texas Entomology
http://www.texasento.net/
Mike Quinn's site with extensive links to general entomology and Lepidoptera-specific resources.
Texas Freshwater Fishes
http://www.fishesoftexas.org/
Provides images, distribution maps, and abstracts as well as TNHC fish database to search for the species of interest.
Texas Horned Lizard Watch
http://tpwd.t<|fim_middle|>http://www.tmmsn.org/
Rescues and rehabilitates marine mammals that strand along the State's coast. Provides information on research, education, mammal rescue, rehabilitation, and release.
Texas Monarch Watch
http://www.texasento.net/dplex.htm
Web version of a brochure highlighting migration, life cycle, and other monarch butterfly information.
Texas Natural History Collections
http://www.utexas.edu/tmm/tnhc/
Located at the Texas Memorial Museum in Austin. Includes databases, collections, events, and exhibits.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department: Private Lands Management
http://tpwd.texas.gov/landwater/land/private/
Information for individuals who are interested in managing natural resources on their property.
Texas Wildlife Services
http://agrilife.org/txwildlifeservices/
Manages the negative impacts of wildlife. Includes links to publications and overview of programs such as rabies control.
The Texas Wildlife Association
http://www.texas-wildlife.org/
Formed in 1985 by a group of ranchers and wildlife managers dedicated to the conservation, management, and enhancement of wildlife and habitat on private lands.
TX-Butterfly
http://listserv.uh.edu/archives/tx-butterfly.html
Archives and subscription management for the e-mail group for butterfliers in Texas.
Wetland Ecology
http://tpwd.texas.gov/landwater/water/habitats/wetland/ecology/
About Texas Parks and Wildlife habitat management activities.
Wild Texas: Wildlife Guide
http://wildtexas.com/wildguides/
Brief accounts of mammal, reptile, and bird species commonly observed in Texas.
Home > Regional > North America > United States > Science and Environment > Animal Life | exas.gov/huntwild/wild/wildlife_diversity/texas_nature_trackers/horned_lizard/
Information about the program and horned lizard resources.
Texas Hummingbird Roundup
http://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/wildlife_diversity/texas_nature_trackers/hummingbird_roundup/
Includes identifying hummingbirds, the state backyard survey, and other resources.
Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network
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One of my goals since starting to write video game music arrangements has been to try and play at MAGFest (Music And Gaming Festival), which occurs annually in National Harbor, MD. Since The Hard Modes were officially formed last July, that dream has been getting closer to<|fim_middle|>emetery Session" name! So good. | reality--we had a band, we developed a repertoire, and we played our music live for the first time a couple of months later.
We had developed a small fanbase over time, garnering over 50 'likes' on Facebook and at least 50 views on each of our videos from our premiere at C'ville Coffee. Even this size a base is amazing to me, but in order to entice the MAGFest staff, I knew that we needed to do more to develop some hype to get ourselves some more exposure. Aside from getting out there and playing more gigs - and doing Facebook Live sessions during those gigs (thanks, Jen!) -, we needed to get recorded and to pair those recordings with some edited video on YouTube. The handheld mic and camcorder recordings of the C'ville Coffee gig were great as a first step, but as these new goals seemed to be the bare minimum that groups need to do nowadays, it was time to take things to the next level.
Thankfully, a friend and jazz colleague of mine since college, Brett Jones, had gotten interested in production a couple of years back. He and another local talented multi-instrumentalist, Garen Dorsey, teamed up to bring us to Garen's home and studio in Richmond, VA, to lay down a handful of tracks.
Garen's place is super interesting. For one, it's half in Hollywood Cemetery, which is a historic graveyard in the city that keeps the remains of some Virginia governors and Supreme Court justices, as well as thousands of Confederate soldiers (read: this place is definitely haunted). That aside, his place looks and feels like a pretty normal apartment that houses a couple of dudes in their early-to-mid-twenties. When we arrived we helped maneuver some stuff around to set up the recording necessities, but as you'll observe in our videos and these pictures, we're just in the middle of a living room, placed next to couches and creeping into a small kitchen.
Knowing that this was where the recording was held will allow you to appreciate how incredible a job Garen and Brett did recording us. The audio sounds as if we were in a stand-alone, dedicated studio. It's jaw-dropping, the dissonance between the location and the quality, and that quality can be contributed to Garen's unbelievable work on the mixing.
All in all we spent from about 10:30am-4:30pm in Richmond. Most of that time was spent recording, but we did have to set up and take down, plus we broke for a classic lunch of American Chinese food (yes, the smell of the apartment was only apparent once you walked outside and came back in).
In that span of time we recorded 5 tunes. We reviewed the forms for each, did a practice take, and then recorded one or two takes depending (for "Corridors" we ended up doing three, the third being the one we used in our video). While "Corridors of Time" is the only video currently out so far, you can also look forward to hearing "Beneath the Mask," "Cosmo Canyon," "I was Born for This," and "Phantom Train" (the cemetery special!).
In the month between the recording and the posting of the video, Garen was hard at work mixing and making suggested edits to the mixes while I figured out what to do with the video footage. To record video of the session, I had bought a JOBY GorillaPod and a few RetiCAM tri-pod mounts, which Jen strategically set up in the house. Note to self: next time I'll have to remember to download everyone's videos before we part--getting around to them after the session for the extraction - or having them upload the videos and send them to me - was tedious.
Editing-wise, I found a free professional video editing software called Lightworks and spent quite a bit of time learning it on the fly. It's not the most intuitive, but it's powerful and there are plenty of tutorials you can watch online as well as forums to search for specific questions. Definitely beats using iMovie or spending hundreds of dollars on Final Cut or Premiere if you're an amateur.
At the time of posting, our video on YouTube has garnered 224 views in 3.5 days, which, for a relatively unknown group, I'm pretty psyched about. Please enjoy! And, I can't stress enough: if you enjoy the video and support what we're doing, please share it with your video game and/or jazz-loving friends!
I've got 'til the 31st to get as much hype as possible and submit our stuff to MAGFest. Another video will be released this weekend--looking forward to sharing it with you all!
PS: Props go to our trumpeteer, Brandon Walsh, for coining the "C | 998 |
SWIMMING POOLS GO OFFSHORE | "Global Possibilities"
Before the industrial boom that transformed waterfront cities into dirty manufacturing hubs in the 19th and 20th centuries, urbanites would take a dip in the rivers, harbors, lakes, and oceans that are a part of many cities to cool off in hotter months, enjoying a break from the steamy weather. But as these water bodies that served as conduits for cities became increasingly polluted, only the bravest or perhaps poorest swimmers would dare go in. Today, as smart cities reclaim their riverfronts as places for recreation and invest heavily in improving water quality, they are getting closer to turning their aquatic resources back into the natural swimming pools they once were.
Some cities still aren't there with water quality, so they use floating pools in barges, which keep the river and pool water separate. In South Bronx, New York City, Baretto Point Park, which was transformed from a toxic brownfield into a park, became home to the Floating Pool Lady, a floating barge-pool in the East River, in 2008.
And in Berlin, a wooden footbridge filled with hammocks leads swimmers out to the 30-meter-long barge-pool Arena Badeschiff. There is a small cafe and bar where Berliners can hang out after playing volleyball.
A more ambitious new wave of offshore pools aims to use river water for these offshore pools, but filtering out pollutants first. In NYC, + Pool seeks to create a 200-feet wide by 200-feet long pool in<|fim_middle|>A floating wooden deck created by Danish architecture firm BIG and JDS features a fantastic diving board, so locals can jump right into the safe harbor sea water.
The pool is also free of charge to all Copenhageners. Now, this is the idea. | a plus-sign shape; its walls will filter out pollutants using a system of membranes set right into the East River. The plus-sign shape will enable greater flexibility: the pool can be separated into four different segments for separate audiences, combined into an Olympic-length swimming pool, or opened up into a big free-for-all space. Earlier last year, they began testing a pilot membrane in the river to evaluate its performance against different conditions over 6 months.
Both + Pool and Studio Octopi are relying on grants and kickstarter campaigns to make their filtration-enabled pools, which will be managed by non-profit organizations, possible. + Pool has raised more than $250,000 but needs about $15 million.
While these floating pools are certainly great amenities, the most sustainable long-term solution will be to simply clean up these polluted bodies of water so urbanites can safely swim in them once again. This is what Copenhagen achieved in 2008. The city then took advantage of its newly-cleaned-up harbor with Harbor Baths, a set of designed pools that make their waterfront even more accessible. Locals get to it via pedestrian and bicycle paths that wind along the waterfront. And there's even a heated bath in the complex for winter bathing.
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Dementia is not a condition in its own right but a term that refers to a variety of symptoms and diseases that affect processes such as memory and brain function. This includes a condition known as Alzheimer's disease, which is the most common form of dementia. The risk of developing dementia increases as you age but it can strike at any time, although it is far more common in older people. There are also different stages of dementia, and it is well worth familiarizing yourself with these.
When someone suffers from dementia, it affects not only the person themselves but also their loved ones who have to learn to live with someone who has these symptoms. This can be very difficult and challenging, which is why it is also important for close family members and friends of sufferers to learn about the<|fim_middle|> and socialize, and their cognitive issues become more noticeable to both family/friends and medical professionals.
During the third of the stages of dementia, sufferers will experience a moderate/severe decline in cognitive functioning. This is a mid-stage period of dementia. Memory problems will become far more evident, and sufferers will require more assistance when it comes to their daily activities. This could include getting dressed, washing and hygiene, making food, and other day-to-day tasks. In some cases, the problems with memory can become major resulting in some sufferers forgetting basic things such as where they live or their own telephone number. Some may even forget their location of what time of the day it is. On average, this stage lasts around one or two years.
When it comes to the stages of dementia, this stage is described as 'middle dementia,' and it is where people often experience a severe decline in cognitive functioning. During this stage, sufferers will require a lot more help when it comes to their day-to-day lives and activities. This is one of the stages of dementia where families often opt for full-time assistance, become dedicated full-time carers themselves, or even consider residential care for their loved one.
During this stage, people can begin forgetting things such as the names of close family members. Sufferers also tend to have more of a memory about things that happened much earlier in their lives than of recent events. Completion of any tasks, control of the bladder, and even speech can become very difficult during this stage of dementia. Some people will go through very noticeable changes when it comes to their emotions and personality. Additional problems may include being delusional, compulsive behavior, becoming easily agitated, and becoming more anxious. The average duration for this stage is around two to three years.
The last of the stages of dementia is the latter stage where there is a very severe decline in cognitive function. On average, this stage lasts for around two to three years. When people reach the last of the stages of dementia, they may find it almost impossible to speak and communicate effectively with others. They become reliant on others for assistance with basic needs such as using the toilet, dressing, washing, and eating. Some may also start to lose basic capabilities such as proper movement and being able to walk. Obviously, this is the latest of the stages of dementia, and the symptoms at this stage will be very serious and profound. It can be extremely difficult for loved ones to manage at this stage, which is why many seek professional assistance or consider residential care.
It is important to remember that the above stages of dementia are a guide to the different levels of cognitive decline those with dementia may experience. There are different scales that are used to describe the different stages of dementia. This includes scales such as the Clinical Dementia Rating, the Functional Assessment Staging Test, and the Global Deterioration Scale. This is why many simply use the terms 'mild dementia', 'moderate dementia,' and 'severe dementia' when describing the stages of dementia. The different stages of dementia all fit within these three main categories based on the severity of the symptoms.
As mentioned earlier, while dementia obviously has a devastating effect on the life of the sufferer, it also has a huge impact on close family members and friends. For some, looking after a loved one with dementia eventually means having to sacrifice a huge amount in terms of their own career, family, social life, and more. For some, it becomes necessary to take on the role of a full-time career as the symptoms become worse, and their loved one moves into the moderate or severe stages of dementia. This can be extremely challenging and distressing.
The good news is that there are now plenty of resources available to help those with dementia as well as those looking after someone with dementia. This includes everything from day centers and support groups through to daily assistance from professionals that come out to your home. Of course, there are residential facilities available as well for those that need around the clock care. If you are concerned about the welfare of someone close to you with dementia, it is well worth looking at the variety of services and resources available. This could provide both your loved one and you with the support and assistance you need, particularly during the later stages of dementia. | different stages of dementia.
Over recent years, we have learned far more about dementia and its impact on sufferers as well as on the families of dementia patients. This has made it possible for people to access more information, resources, and services to help when it comes to living with dementia. In this article, we will take a closer look at what dementia is and the different stages.
Who Is Affected by Dementia?
The Different Stages of Dementia
Stage Five
Dementia is an umbrella term that describes a set of symptoms associated with conditions and diseases affecting functions such as the brain and memory. Dementia is, therefore, not a disease in itself but a syndrome. A number of different conditions and diseases can result in dementia, but the most common one is Alzheimer's disease.
It is also worth noting that there are different variations of dementia and people can suffer from multiple types, which is referred to as mixed dementia. This is a syndrome that can have a huge effect on day-to-day life for the sufferer and can impact on everything from memory and reasoning through to independence and even hygiene.
Dementia generally tends to affect people as they get older, with Alzheimer's disease being one of the most common causes of these symptoms. However, while it is much more common in elderly people, it can also affect younger people. Dementia can affect those that have other conditions apart from Alzheimer's disease. This includes conditions such as Huntington's and Parkinson's disease. Each of these conditions has a negative impact on a different section of the brain. Other people at risk of dementia are those that suffer from vascular disease, HIV, depression, stroke, or serious drug addiction.
There are different stages of dementia, and these refer to the progression of the symptoms. Dementia symptoms can start off very mild or barely noticeable but can progressively get worse depending on the cause. It is important for health professionals to know about the different stages of dementia as this then has an impact on the most appropriate treatment. Often, dementias different stages are simply described as mild, moderate, or severe. However, the stages of dementia can actually be broken down further in line with the symptoms being experienced by the person. So, let's take a look at the dementias different stages:
The first of the stages of dementia is where there is a very mild decline in cognition. It may be quite difficult for others to pick up on this decline at first as the symptoms are very mild. Many will put it down to simple aging rather than signs of dementia. Some of the symptoms include becoming more forgetful, finding it a bit harder to focus, a slight decrease in performance and productivity, or struggling to find the right words when speaking with someone. Gradually, close friends and family do start to notice the difference even though this is one of dementias early stages. The average duration of this early stage is between two and seven years.
The second stage of dementia lasts for around two years on average. Although this is another of the earlier stages of dementia, sufferers will find it increasingly difficult to focus and concentrate. Memory will also begin to suffer more with some starting to forget things that happened recently. Other symptoms include a decreased level of independence, difficulties in financial management, and difficulties with more complex tasks. Some people become more withdrawn and isolated from those close to them at this stage, often denying the symptoms to themselves as well as to others. They find it more difficult to mix | 694 |
Doing the Work at Okta: Our Commitment to Driving Change
Madhavi Bhasin
Director, Diversity and Inclusion
We're all still recovering from the events of the last two weeks, and are taking in and supporting the voices of our POC colleagues throughout the company. Since joining Okta in 2019, my role has been to lead the Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DIB) team at Okta. The last few weeks have shown us how important it is to focus on these ideals, but they've also demonstrated that change and action are paramount. Today, I'd like to outline for you where we are today and how we plan to put in the time, energy and resources the Okta community has demanded in the wake of the recent attacks against Black and POC lives.
How we're lending support to our Black colleagues and community right now
We want to ensure that we are listening to, investing in, and supporting all members of our Okta community—especially our Black colleagues who may feel triggered and are impacted at this moment. Over the last few weeks, we've offered mental health support, hosted sessions to provide a safe space for affected communities, and provided resources to educate allies.
In addition, the DIB team and People of Color @ Okta (POC) employee resource group are leading an effort to support causes fighting for racial justice. To date, Okta employees have donated nearly $60,000 to the fund, and many have taken time off work to join the protests happening around the world. POC has directed an additional $10,000 to the Black Lives Matter movement. And, we're celebrating Juneteenth at Okta as a day to cherish Black achievements and culture, educate ourselves, and take collective action as an organization.
Our long-term diversity strategy: where we are and where we're going
POC @ Okta was founded in 2018, following the launch of Women @ Okta and Pride @ Okta a few years earlier. This ERG was launched by Okta employees to both create a space for the people of color community and to partner with teams across the company to improve diverse representation and a sense of belonging. POC advocates for our Black, Hispanic, Latinx, Asian, Indian, and Native American employees. Since 2019, the DIB team has been working with these groups as a part of its charge to build a diversity strategy, and establish annual internal reporting on the diversity of our employees, leadership team, and board of directors.
In my mind, there are three areas to cover when it comes to any long-term diversity, inclusion and belonging strategy: our workplace, our workforce and the marketplace. To report our progress in all of these areas, we will be releasing Okta's first State of Inclusion Report in the fall of 2020.
Our workplace goals are to have inclusive and diverse pipelines of applications and employees. We think about this in three areas: bringing the best talent to Okta<|fim_middle|> a tech company's office before
94% reported positive impact on understanding career opportunities in the tech sector
40% of employees said the experience changed how they would think of hiring future candidates
Specific actions we are taking over the next year to develop talent in our communities include the following:
Doubling down on our workforce development partnerships and expanding our efforts to develop tech talent from underrepresented communities
A $1 million three-year commitment from the Okta for Good Fund to fund racial justice and workforce development organizations
We want to ensure that as we bring in diverse candidates, we continue to nurture our culture of inclusion and belonging. We create a culture where everyone can voice their opinions and bring their authentic selves to work. We want to retain our talent and offer clear paths to leadership for our BlOPC and underrepresented groups. This year we have planned the following:
Community building: Our Employee Resource Groups — POC, [email protected], Pride, EMEA Circle — in partnership with DIB lead our community building events. From cultural celebrations events, to guest speakers focused on professional development, from book reading clubs to social hours, community building is key element of ensuring that our people have an opportunity to connect outside their teams.
Education: We host quarterly lunch and learn sessions focussed on a range of topics including inclusive hiring, allyship, and inclusive leadership. These lunches serve to create a space for our team to learn and discuss topics focused on creating a stronger and inclusive culture.
Training and manager support: Our Talent Management team is working on [email protected] for in-depth leadership training focused on competencies, values and managing diverse teams. We are also updating our belonging cues project to accommodate our transition to remote work. Belonging cues are verbal and non-verbal signals that create safe connections and are critical in ensuring active participation and inclusion.
Personalized D&I training: We are launching a personalized diversity and inclusion journey for all Okta employees based on their interest and level of D&I understanding.
The third area is currently the one where we have the furthest to go. And it has to do with the companies we partner with, invest in, and sell to. The Okta Ventures team is committed to increasing deal-sourcing, engagement, and fund allocation to support Black entrepreneurs. But Okta Ventures provides more than just financial support for these startups — we're also partnering with and providing mentorship to these organizations. We're implementing processes to ensure that diversity is seen as critical to their business' success.
More specifically, moving forward, we'll be doing the following:
Share best practices from Diversity.vc and our DIB team with our portfolio founders
Showcase our open application for pitching on our Okta Ventures website and committing to giving all relevant submitted investments — regardless of race/gender — an introductory call
Participate in unconscious bias training for investors
Develop a plan to increase the number of organizations we partner with and sell to that have diverse workforces
The last few weeks have been difficult ones, but they also serve to spotlight where we're falling short, and how we can funnel our talents, energy and creativity to turn this moment of tragedy and pain into real progress. Integrity is a core value at Okta, and that requires accountability for our plans and actions. Over the next few months, we look forward to reporting our progress to the Okta community.
Madhavi is a change leader with over 10 years of experience in successfully managing global programs focused on social impact, capacity building and sustainable change. She is passionate about designing approaches for collective impact through social change projects. Currently she is leading Okta's diversity and inclusion efforts.
Prior to joining Okta, Madhavi led a global technology entrepreneurship program for young girls (ages 10-18) at Technovation. Outside her fun work life, Madhavi loves to meditate and listen to imaginary tales from her preschooler.
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A Look Back to Move Forward: What 2020 Meant for Okta
By Kristina Johnson
The year 2020 has been marked by difficulty, disruption, and division. Here at Okta, we share that sense as we look back at the headlines that have shaped the…
Okta's State of Inclusion Report
By Madhavi Bhasin Kristina Johnson
From day one, Okta has been committed to building a culture of inclusion and belonging. We know that fostering a diverse workforce, customer base, and partner…
Okta's Values Shine Through: My Experience as an Intern
By Aaliyah Sibanda
Empower our People. In order to live up to that core value, Okta has extended itself to students from all over the world to have the opportunity to become an…
A Message From the POC @ Okta Leadership
By Nola Turnage Pamala Simpson
Okta's diversity and inclusion efforts did not begin the day after George Floyd took his last breath. Our journey started 11 years ago when our founders Todd…
Okta Q2 Virtual Hackathon: Overcoming the Challenges of Innovating Virtually
By George Wong
One of Okta's five core values is to "Never stop innovating," whether that's innovation in the products our customers love, the impact we have on our community… | , retaining and developing our talent, and developing the best talent in our communities. To move the needle on this, we are making the following commitments:
Hiring the best talent
Partnerships: Okta's Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DIB) team is sourcing partnerships that can help us create a steady pipeline of diverse talent. We currently have over seven partnerships with organizations like AfroTech, Power to Fly, and Lesbians Who Tech. We will be expanding these partnerships in the coming months.
Diversity recruiting champions: Members of the recruiting team have joined forces with DIB to lead specific sourcing partnerships as Diversity Champions. Diversity Champions ensure that our partnerships are strategic and that candidates from diversity fairs are moving through the pipeline. It also enables us to include these candidates in our Talent communities, where we continue to connect with them while new roles open.
Dynamic Work framework: The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated our shift to a more flexible work environment. Leveraging our Dynamic Work framework will enable employees to work from the location that makes the most sense for them, and will give our organization the opportunity to hire in areas outside of where Okta has offices, which will allow us to tap into a more diverse talent pool.
Specific actions we are taking over the next year to improve diversity within our workplace include:
Developing + investing in additional sourcing partnerships
Tracking top-of-funnel demographics and candidate movement to identify our challenge areas—and fixing them
Putting guidelines and processes in place to ensure that interview teams are diverse and leveraging tools to check unconscious biases
Investing in manager and interview training that enables and encourages diverse hiring
Retaining the best talent
Plan for clear career paths and leadership training for our BIPOC talent
On-boarding that's focused on inclusion and belonging:
Okta's on-boarding plan will focus on the value and need of creating an inclusive culture at Okta. Our Talent Management team is going to offer a [email protected] program that will include how leaders can manage and lead diverse teams and nurture a sense of belonging.
A mentorship program for BIPOC talent
We are launching a pilot mentoring program with our three ERGs in August. We will use this 6-month pilot to offer a wider mentorship program focused on the professional development opportunities for URMs.
Developing the best talent
The "leaky tech pipeline" is a clear problem in our industry, and we need to make progress. From early childhood education to barriers in post-secondary computing environments, tech demographics do not reflect the diversity of the population.
Job training + exposure
Since it was formally founded in 2016, our social impact arm, Okta for Good, has taken a lead in our diversity commitment as well. They've established partnerships with local nonprofits who support access to job training and exposure to tech companies. Examples include Year Up, Genesys Works, JVS, and Students Rising Above. From these programs, we've hosted over 40 student and youth interns/apprentices over the last four years. Of the eligible interns (those that weren't still full-time students), more than 50% were hired into full-time roles.
Also, for the last three years, Okta for Good has hosted Tech Pathways Week, where we open our doors and connect underrepresented youth and job seekers to careers in technology. We are pleased to call out these areas of impact from the events:
Over 1,000 community members reached
Over 750 employee volunteers participated
26% of participants had never spent 1:1 time with a tech professional before
43% of participants had never set foot inside | 744 |
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Mix it up, please!
Online videos and social media are the most effective channels, right? Media insider Rouven Dankert riffs about digital groupthink and reveals how print media can fetch an ROI of 130 percent.
Print is more effective than online – contrary to the general view.
Print advertising achieves an ROI of 120-130 percent.
Classic media KPI's disregard qualitative factors such as acceptance and trust.
Mixed campaigns that include print are far more effective than mono-campaigns.
For over 20 years, auditor and consultant Rouven Dankert has made sure that marketing budgets are spent as efficiently – and effectively – as possible. We asked the founder of Hamburg's Independent Media Guides how best to use print as an effective advertising tool.
Rouven, when it comes to print, reality and perception are worlds apart. A study by Ebiquity shows that print is far more effective than it's given credit for by media planners. Why this erroneous group think?
I'm afraid this attitude to print is widespread,<|fim_middle|> should, in a constructive way, hold their media agencies to account – and factor in learnings from countless agency modellings when formulating their strategies.
Does the good name of print titles also help with brand safety?
Most definitely. Brand safety, which has quite rightly been much discussed recently, isn't an issue for established print media and their digital extensions. This is a clear advantage when it comes to cross-media comparison – and one that shouldn't be underestimated.
Presumably, there's no upper limit. But at which scale are print budgets effective? Is it at all possible to be efficient when budgets are small?
Depending on the target group definition and the campaign ask, "smaller" budgets deployed in themed media can be used in a way that's not only impactful, but als very efficient AND effective – for example in bespoke productions. Publishers are highly creative in this area, supporting customised, co-operative solutions for their customers. I'm also saying this because we have a unique insight into the print market thanks to our monitoring partners AdVision Digital – an insight into the creation and development of print ads and PR activities. Nevertheless, in view of the very different circulation figures of print titles and the corresponding pricing structures, it wouldn't be very professional on my part to give you a specific minimum investment.
Every pound spent on print advertising yields an average return of £1.20 to £1.30
Rouven Dankert
Media planner & CEO, Independent Media Guides
Let's go back to the way credible print titles reflect well on advertisers. This advantage only endures when print media respond to the zeitgeist and respond to the ever-changing demands of the audience. Is Germany's publishing universe sufficiently innovative to meet these expectations?
New and successful magazines keep popping up all the time in which advertisers can position themselves effectively. As regards print's capacity to innovate, Gruner + Jahr surely sets a benchmark: in the last three and a half years, the publisher has brought more than twenty print magazines to market. Of course, these included magazines that were later discontinued. But there are great successes, too, such as "Barbara" or the health mag "stern gesund leben". And so Gruner + Jahr demonstrates that innovation also involves having the guts to mess up and learn from the experience; to try things out and give new ideas a chance. At the same time, they demonstrate that there are innovative ideas in print that can be wildly successful. An ad in IKEA's customer magazine "Amelia" is a conspicuous example: the Swedish furniture giant offered special discounts to pregnant women, asking them to prove their pregnancy by peeing on a specially-prepped page in the mag!
Before you go, can you give us three tips on how companies can make their print advertising even more efficient? And what could publishers and agencies do better?
Okay. Tip 1: Integration into a multi-channel strategy, depending on target group. For example, print plus digital. Tip 2: attention-grabbing, innovative advertising supplements which make full use of the haptic advantages of print – taking into account a suitable price premium. Tip 3: be specific on where your ad should be placed. The quality of an ad's environment matters.
Publishers – and especially agencies, whose role it is to give give advice – have to make available objective research which clearly demonstrates the contribution print makes to effectiveness. Advertisers have every right to demand a reliable basis on which to plan their media budget. Compared to proactive industry events such as the Screenforce Days for TV or Dmexco for digital, print seems to have resigned itself to being on the defensive. Here, it's important to highlight innovative initiatives such as the G+J e|MS advertising environment planner .
Last but not least: which print channels have the brightest future, especially for advertising vehicles?
Channels that consistently maintain their added value in the form of quality journalism, establish their target group positioning on a solid footing, and successfully extend their offering digitally, be it as e-papers, newsfeeds or via social media. The future business model will be a combination of paid-for content and advertising revenue. In addition, I see great potential for premium, haptically-appealing lifestyle-, beauty- and luxury titles which are practically cut out for advertisers from these segments. The appeal to a narrowly defined target groups leads to a mutual image transfer between publications, advertisers and advertised products. And that's a win-win situation. | and it doesn't only exist on the corporate side. "Digital drunkenness" – to use a term coined by former Mindshare boss Christoph Baron – doesn't only affect companies, it affects agencies too. Corporate marketing bosses are under digital pressure, having to explain why they DON'T invest in digital on a certain scale. Those who promote print, on the other hand, have difficulty tallying rising prices with falling circulation numbers. All of which doesn't make it easier for print as a medium.
How do companies respond to this? Are they still open to print?
From where I stand, companies are still very open to a well-differentiated media strategy aimed at long-lasting brand building – a strategy developed with creative and media agencies. However, companies are critical of rising prices against a background of falling circulation numbers and the corresponding hike in CPM. Publishers have some more explaining to do here. They need to make sure prices change in sync with circulation.
We live in a digital age where it seems that social media is de rigueur. How can print stand out in this universe? Or is print, like all other media, at its best when it works in concert with other channels?
Absolutely. Studies have shown that the interplay with other media has significant effectiveness upsides when compared to mono-campaigns. This is just as true for print as it is for all other media. Incidentally, changes in how media are used has impacted the reach not only of print, but of TV as well. However, across the board, print has a credibility and acceptance bonus, which some publishers extend digitally – with remarkable skill and success.
Does the ROI reflect this?
Yes. According to a cross media study by Germany's research institute GfK, print advertising in newspapers and magazines had the highest ROI when compared to radio, TV and online banners. The study found print ROI running at 120 to 130 per cent. This means: every pound spent on print advertising yields an average return of £1.20 to £1.30.
Can we have a more detailed breakdown? What are the strengths of different print sub-genres? Let's start with daily newspapers – the print channel with the highest turnover.
First off, the market likes to think that efficiency is equal to low CPM and discounted offers. I, however, wouldn't determine the strength of a medium by its efficiency alone, but by a combination of efficiency and effectiveness. The strength of daily newspapers is marked by rapid cumulative reach in high earning target demographics. In addition, against a backdrop of fake news and global Twitter politics, daily papers' credibility and function as a signpost is another strength. These values reflect well on print ads and the companies which place them in this environment.
And what about newsstand magazines and other print genres?
A particular strength of newsstand magazines is that they target their demographics very precisely, and with minimal loss through diffusion. Direct marketing and advertising supplements on a micro-marketing level enable very finely-calibrated regional targeting that is highly relevant to retailers such as high street grocers. These channels are close to consumers who have become accustomed to this kind of advertising and who – apart rom "advertising refuseniks" – have accepted them as a valuable source of information. Magazines such as "Landlust", the German magazine for country living, hit a nerve and are perfect examples of successfully responding to the current demand for feel-good titles. At the moment, so-called testimonial and personality magazines such as "Barbara" are in, setting new trends. Print offers great targeting potential combined with high credibility and a haptic reading experience.
Let's look more closely at efficiency. Everybody wants efficiency. But what exactly does that mean? Which KPI's are relevant?
At least in my book, efficiency equals maximising ROI. That said, it's really important to consciously differentiate between different dimensions such as awareness and sales. Depending on the industry and how established an advertiser is, the cost per additional awareness point and cost per contract can lie far apart. Classical media KPI's such as reach and CPM are, after all, only a means to an end, and don't always do print justice.
Could you elaborate?
With pleasure. "Last click counts" attribution models systemically over-value digital by a wide margin, as important as this medium is. For a fair cross-media comparison, the market standards of contact quality and effectiveness should also be considered, and these depend quite significantly on the creative as well as its environment. In print as a medium, the titles themselves constitute a brand. They can reflect positively on the ads placed in them and offer a very intensive, close-contact experience. Advertisers | 951 |
MA State Senate makes history, votes carbon pricing Press Release
June 14, 2018 July 12, 2018 mikeb
In passing a major clean energy bill today, the Massachusetts State Senate voted to authorize the most comprehensive carbon pricing program in the country. Its author, State Sen. Mike Barrett (D-Lexington), told his colleagues, "In taking a fresh run at combating climate change, you're putting Massachusetts state government at the forefront — right where our constituents want it to be."
The action made history, in that the Senate became the first legislative body in the U.S., either federal or state, to approve revenue-neutral fees as a carbon pricing option. If the policy survives intact after debate in the Massachusetts House and is signed into law, the Commonwealth will also become only the second state, after California, to extend the concept of carbon pricing to transportation.
"Climate change is relentless, and 'putting a price on carbon' is the single most effective thing a state government can do to fight it," Barrett said. "But this isn't about the Legislature forcing one design, and one design only, upon a governor. We're firm on timing because the problem is urgent, but we don't mandate the method."
The Senate language does not impose a specific blueprint. A chief executive and his administration are held instead to specific deadlines — carbon pricing of some kind for the transportation sector by the end of 2020, for commercial and industrial buildings and processes by the end of 20<|fim_middle|> giving people hope."
So far in its 2017-2018 legislative session, the Massachusetts House has not produced an energy bill. Amid indications the situation might be about to change, an array of organizations are gearing up to preserve the groundbreaking elements of today's legislation.
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"Program flexibility on a no-excuses schedule was a winning combination for us," Barrett said. Over the course of a nine-hour debate, most of which centered on other provisions of the comprehensive legislation, no one in the 40-member Senate moved an amendment to weaken the carbon pricing provisions.
In 2013, Barrett filed the first state-level carbon pricing bill in the nation to go beyond "cap and trade" in favor of other forms of carbon pricing. "For some time I've pushed for a 'revenue-neutral' carbon fee," he said. "It's drawn a good deal of support, but with this new approach we're bridging differences and building consensus among climate change activists. Global warming is scary. Inside the Legislature and outside, with all kinds of activists across the region, we're getting stronger and | 185 |
Malvern, PA – May 17, 2012 – Egalet Ltd., a privately held specialty pharmaceutical company focused on developing safe, effective and tamper-resistant medications, announced today Bob Radie, president and chief executive officer (CEO), will present at the Life Sciences Europe conference on May 23 organized by the International Venture Club. Mr. Radie will review the company's patented technology and pipeline of tamper-resistant opioids that are nearing phase 3.
Egalet Ltd. is a European-based specialty pharmaceutical company using its patented technology to produce novel therapeutics on its own and with partners. Based on the proprietary technology, Egalet is developing a pipeline of tamper-resistant opioids that are nearing pivotal testing. In addition, Egalet<|fim_middle|> shell and matrix, a variety of extended-release formulations can be produced. The technology offers a predictable and tailored pharmacokinetic profile, lacks a significant food effect and alcohol dose dumping, and can be used with a broad range of opioids and non-opioids. Egalet has extensively filed patents to protect its inventions covering both the technology and product-specific patents. Please visit www.egalet.com for more information.
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and to deter the abuse of medications via known routes of abuse, including chewing, snorting, and injecting. The uniquely shaped, patient-friendly tablet consists of matrix and can add a shell or coat. By altering the composition of the | 62 |
Natori (名取市; -shi) é uma cidade japonesa localizada na prefeitura de Miyagi.
Em 31 de Maio de 2020, a cidade tinha uma população estimada em 79.459 habitantes em 31.748 domicílios e uma densidade populacional de 810 pessoas por km². Tem uma área total de 98,17 km².
Recebeu o estatuto de cidade a 1 de Outubro de 1958.
Geografia
Natori está na região centro-oeste da prefeitura de Miyagi, banhada pelo Oceano Pacífico a leste. Natori está localizada nas planícies férteis do rio Natori e no delta do rio Masuda; no entanto, o rio Natori não está realmente dentro dos limites da cidade de Natori. Tradicionalmente, a área conhecida como Distrito de Natori se estendia do rio Natori no norte e no oeste. No entanto, essas regiões foram absorvidas na maior área de Sendai e não fazem mais parte de Natori.
Cidades vizinhas
Prefeitura de Miyagi
Sendai
Murata
Iwanuma
Clima
Natori tem um clima úmido (Köppen classificação climática Cfa) caracterizado por verões amenos e invernos frios. A temperatura média anual em Natori é de 12,6 °C. A média anual de chuvas é de 1252 mm com setembro como o mês mais úmido. As temperaturas são mais altas em média em agosto, em torno de 24,9 °C, e as mais baixas em janeiro, em torno de 1,5 °C.
História
A área da atual cidade de Natori fazia parte da antiga província de Mutsu, e estava sob controle do clã data do Domínio de Sendai durante o período Edo, sob o xogunato Tokugawa. Em 1867, Natori chegou dentro das fronteiras da nova província de Rikuzen, que mais tarde se tornou parte da prefeitura de Miyagi. Com a criação do moderno sistema de municípios em 1 de abril de 1889, o Distrito de Natori foi formado com seis aldeias: Masuda, Higashi-Taga, Shimo-Masuda, Tatekoshi, Aishiwa e Takadate. Em 1 de abril de 1896, Masuda foi elevado ao status de cidade, assim como Higashi-Taga em 1 de abril de 1928. Em 1º de abril de 1955, as cidades de Masuda e Yuriage, e as vilas de Shimo-Masuda, Tatekoshi, Aishiwa e Takadate foram fundidas para criar a cidade de Natori, que foi elevada ao status de cidade em 1º de outubro de 1958. As fronteiras oficiais da cidade de Natori mudaram desde 1958, quando a cidade de Sendai redefine sua área para incluir distritos ao norte e oeste de Natori.
Sismo e tsunami de Tohoku
A cidade de Natori foi uma das mais atingidas pelo terremoto e pelo tsunami de Tōhoku ocorrido no dia 11 de Março de 2011.
Grandes porções da área costeira, incluindo o Aeroporto de Sendai, foram severamente danificados pelo tsunami.
Em 14 de março, equipes de resgate chegaram a uma área de Natori, conhecida como Yuriage e encontraram poucos sobreviventes pois grande parte da área de Yuriage foi dizimada. A população teve somente o intervalo de 30 minutos entre o terremoto e o tsunami para evacuar a região, apesar de muitos moradores tivessem tempo para escapar, as autoridades locais disseram na época que era praticamente impossível determinar o número de vítimas. Tempos depois, houve a divulgação de que entre 900 a 11.260 pessoas morreram na cidade.
No dia 17 de Outubro de 2011, o ex-jogador de futebol, Pelé, fez uma visita a uma escola da cidade, cumprimentou e tirou fotos com as crianças, além de fazer orações as vitimas em um bairro da cidade.
Economia
Natori tem uma economia mista. Com base em dados coletados em 2000:
6,4% da população de Natori trabalha nas indústrias agrícolas e na pesca comercial.
26,1% da população da Natori trabalha em indústrias,<|fim_middle|>Atrações turísticas
Parque Esportivo Natori
Cidades-irmãs
Guararapes, Brasil
Kaminoyama, Japão
Shingu, Japão
Referências
Ligações externas
Site oficial em japonês
Cidades de Miyagi
Terremoto e tsunâmi no Japão em 2011 | principalmente, na fábrica da Nikon e na fábrica da Cervejaria Sapporo.
Transporte
Aeroportos
Aeroporto de Sendai
Ferrovias
East Japan Railway Company (JR East) - Linha Principal de Tōhoku / Linha Jōban
East Japan Railway Company (JR East) - Linha do Aeroporto de Sendai
Natori - Morisekinoshita - Mitazono - Aeroporto de Sendai
Rodovias
Via Expressa Tōhoku - Minami-Sendai IC
Rodovia Sendai-Tōbu – Natori e Sendai Aeroporto IC
Rodovia Sendai-Nanbu – Yamada IC
Rota Nacional 4
Rota Nacional 286
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Artificial reefs help bring giant kelp back to Southern California
by Source on May 7, 2011 · 0 comments
in California, Environment
By Tony Barboza / Los Angeles Times / May 7, 2011
It was a gamble when Southern California Edison crews pushed basketball-size chunks of rock from a barge off San Clemente three years ago.
Eventually, the utility company hoped, the artificial reef it had assembled 50 feet below the waves would support a new kelp forest and fulfill state-imposed requirements to offset the damage its nearby nuclear power plant causes to marine life.
But no one expected the 174-acre Wheeler North Reef would thrive the way it has. Or as quickly.
Edison just happened to build its reef during the greatest giant kelp resurgence in decades, one that has brought an impressive buildup of floating green foliage to long-depleted waters near the Southern California shore.
"The last few years have been the most fantastic years for giant kelp in the last 30 years at least," said Nancy Caruso, a marine biologist who organized last month's Kelpfest in Laguna Beach, a festival celebrating the return of the underwater forests. "We had some excellent ocean conditions and the kelp started to spread, so they couldn't have timed it better."
More than a mere seaweed, giant kelp — a fast-growing algae — is the foundation<|fim_middle|> of the project's independent monitors. "The real long-term question is whether the kelp forest will sustain itself."
Huang and a team of researchers with the university work five days a week in the summer diving into the reef, documenting the forest's progress and meticulously counting the creatures living among the kelp. They report their findings to the California Coastal Commission, which ordered the energy company to build the reef.
On a recent morning, Huang and his team set out from Dana Point Harbor in a motorboat for their first series of dives of the year.
Huang and fellow diver Denise Weisman struggled into dry suits, put on air tanks, masks and flippers and leaped into the water. Though the water is murky below, they could see fish swimming through the kelp's columns, sea stars stuck to its blades and crabs and snails crawling about where it clings to chunks of rock on the seafloor. A few minutes later, the divers emerged from the frigid ocean, tangled in slimy green kelp fronds.
To comply with its permit from the Coastal Commission, Edison's reef must meet a list of scientific standards for 40 years. Since the reef isn't expected to meet all the requirements each consecutive year, it could take decades longer for the company to meet its obligations.
Last year, the reef met 10 of 14 standards, including kelp abundance, and fish density and diversity. A report by UC Santa Barbara last month said giant kelp "increased dramatically" to fill the entire 174-acre reef, up from just 19 acres the year before. But the reef has yet to attract as many creatures to the seafloor as natural reefs.
The gains kelp has made in San Clemente and across Southern California could be short-lived because its prosperity waxes and wanes with climate conditions.
The algae starve when warm ocean conditions cut off their source of deep-water nutrients. They can be torn from the seafloor and washed ashore when the next big storm rolls through. Parnell, the marine ecologist, said kelp is "constantly in a state of responding to ocean climate conditions, human disturbances and predators."
For Edison, which has invested $39 million in the reef, there is hope its design will make up for the ups and downs of the ocean environment.
The company, for instance, used rock quarried from Catalina Island and broken into chunks small enough to be knocked around by ocean currents, said David Kay, Edison's head of environmental projects. That motion is important because it can dislodge organisms like sea fans that compete with kelp for space on the rock.
"We're trying to re-create a complex marine ecosystem on a very large scale and get it perfectly right by very stringent measures," Kay said. "We have no delusions that we're going to get everything right. Mother Nature will have its effects on this reef and on natural reefs in the area, and we'll be watching and adapting to them."
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Yet in recent decades, Southern California's kelp forests have been on the decline, reduced by up to 80% of their historic range.
Pollution from sewage and storm runoff has made it harder for sunlight to reach the leafy algae. As the kelp beds withered and the fish declined, sea urchins invaded the seafloor and crowded out the surviving kelp. Off San Onofre, the decline was accelerated by the warm, cloudy water discharged by the nuclear power plant.
Conservation groups have worked up and down the coast to try to restore kelp forests, planting seedlings and scattering spores in places such as Laguna Beach, Crystal Cove and Malibu, where there is a rocky seafloor for them to clamp onto. The results were initially disappointing as warm-water climate patterns such as El Niño continued to devastate the kelp.
Now, giant kelp has bounced back in the last few years, not because of made-man reefs but largely in response to a series of mild summers and an influx of cool, nutrient-rich water.
Recent aerial surveys show the spread of kelp forests at "near historical highs" not seen since the 1950s, said Ed Parnell, a marine ecologist with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
"If you look at the records in terms of the canopies, they're doing phenomenally well," he said, noting a similar revival at two of the region's largest kelp forests off the San Diego County coast.
Once a giant kelp takes hold on the ocean bottom, it can grow up to 2 feet a day. So it doesn't take long to mature into a sprawl of translucent greenery that sustains populations of fish and invertebrates and drops nutrients onto the seafloor.
Last year, kelp growing from Edison's artificial reef broke the ocean surface for the first time, revealing a grid of dark-green patches of foliage much sooner than the project's managers anticipated.
"Within the second year, we had a full-blown kelp forest canopy," said David Huang, a research scientist for UC Santa Barbara and one | 480 |
'Filly Brown' Star Gina Rodriguez Will Be 'Sleeping With Fishes'
Megan Elsen○ July 18, 2012
Although we weren't fans of her break-out Filly Brown at Sundance; according to THR, star Gina Rodriguez will get another chance at fame, landing the lead role in an upcoming film by writer/director Nicole Gomez Fisher titled Sleeping With Fishes.
Rodriguez will be playing a "young woman who, after the death of her cheating husband, must return home to her dysfunctional cross-cultural family. With the help of her quirky, comic-book obsessed sister (Ana Oritz) and a possible new romance on the horizon, she begins to realize that one must lose everything in life to discover what has been buried there all along."
Although the reviews for Brown weren't very strong across the board, her role as the titular character<|fim_middle|> No Names, and the indie drama California Winter, out sometime this year.
Courtney Andrialis will be producing Sleeping With Fishes, which is scheduled to begin shooting this month in Brooklyn.
What do you think of Rodriguez leading Sleeping With Fishes?
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Promising Young Woman Trailer: Carey Mulligan Seeks Cathartic Revenge | did generate some buzz for the Chicago native. She's also been seen in Go For It!, Our Family Wedding, as well a guest appearance on Happy Endings. The starlet will be seen next in a recurring role on the series | 47 |
Home > Self builds > Energy-Efficient Low-Carbon Home
Energy-Efficient Low-Carbon Home
A blend of historic construction materials and modern building methods has led to the creation of a cost-effective, low-carbon home in Oxfordshire
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Photographer: Brett Charles
The name Ian Pritchett has been well-known in building conservation circles for nearly 30 years. Ian, a builder, has written and lectured extensively, mainly in association with SPAB (the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings).
So it came as a surprise to many that in 2010 Ian, along with his wife Simone, chose to swap their brick and flint 17th-century listed farmhouse in the Chilterns for an undistinguished bungalow 20 miles away, which they would later demolish and replace with a new low-carbon four bedroom property.
Ian and Simone Pritchett have self built an energy-efficient home of hemp/lime construction using a unique process where the materials have been cast into purpose-built panels — reducing construction time to seven months
Thanks to its thermally efficient structure and use of eco technologies, including a mechanical ventilation heat recovery system, the home has a heat demand of about 2.5kW — approximately the same as a high-powered hair dryer!
As a result of being heavily budget conscious, the build cost of this home was just £788/m²
Name: Ian and Simone Pritchett
Build cost: £197,000 (£788/m²)
Build time: 8 months
Location: Oxfordshire
Building with Lime
Although he was brought up in the building trade and has restored and rebuilt a number of old houses, this was Ian's first self build. The move to Abingdon in Oxfordshire also enabled him to live closer to where his (then) company Lime Technology – which he founded in 2002 – was based. Ian is dedicated to the development of lime-based building products and sustainable building solutions, and transferring these materials from the world of historic buildings to the new-build sector, so the obvious next move was to apply this method to create his own energy-efficient home. The result is a demonstration of the effectiveness of building in hemp/lime panels.
The process of building in hemp/lime has been in use in this country for about 12 years, but very few houses have been constructed so far using this material in panel form. Ian's aim for several years has been to prove the effectiveness of hemp/lime in the self-build sector.
"Historically the material has been cast on site," Ian explains, "but this is slow and the unpredictable British climate causes constant drying problems. I spent several years developing a process whereby the material could be cast into panels purpose-built to architects' designs and then assembled on site."
<|fim_middle|> – which has created a home of low U values – together with eco solutions, the entire house achieves a heat demand of about 2.5kW — approximately the output of a high-powered hair dryer.
"On average we have been running at £1.25 a day," says Ian. "If we assume 150 heating days per year, then our predicted electricity bill will be £187.50. However the first winter was mild, so the £250 a year figure I have been working on should be about right."
Effective Heating
The low-energy home is effectively heated using electricity supplied by underfloor heating (upstairs only the bathrooms are heated). In fact, the energy rating is quite close to Passivhaus performance — the heat demand is no more than 10W/m² during peak times. The house is also continually monitored, but Ian is quietly confident that they have hit the Passivhaus requirement. The combination of the 300mm hemp/lime and hemp-fibre walls gives a U value of 0.13 — about twice as good as the standard modern home.
The hemp-fibre insulation in the roof betters this, giving a U value rating of 0.1, and the addition of triple-glazed windows and a mechanical ventilation heat recovery system also helps improve performance. "What is really nice about this house is that the vapour-permeable walls buffer humidity and help create a really comfortable environment," says Simone.
Despite their strict budget, Ian and Simone have managed to finish their home with beautiful fixtures — the family bathroom is case in point with neutral floor and wall tiles from British Ceramic Tiles and Villeroy & Boch sanitaryware
After their attempts to build a more exciting design fell foul of the planners, and not wishing to spend time going to appeal, Ian and Simone chose to stick with the design that came with the plot.
"We threw out the idea of switching to a more imaginative design and adjusted the specification to suit the £200,000 budget," explains Ian, who called on a few favours from the past to keep costs down. "We were keen above all to prove the house could be built rapidly and effectively for the best value. There is plenty of time to move on to a more exciting design at a later stage, and the point with this house was to show that these lime-based materials, with their breathing walls and tremendous insulation qualities, point the way for future house construction in both the private and the public sectors, at a price that is achievable for everyone."
Buying Materials
While it is true that Ian could buy the main hemp/lime panels at a highly discounted price because of his connection with Lime Technology, Simone had to go to market for most of the other materials.
"We chose everything – even the triple-glazed windows – on the basis of value for money," says Ian. "Because of the way we organised the build there were no layers of profit in the overall cost. In most self builds the cost escalates because everyone has a hand in the till at every level."
The L-shaped floorplan, prominent gable and dormer windows allow the rear elevation to adopt a modern cottage style, while glazed double doors from Rationel open the internal spaces out onto a raised deck for outdoor entertaining, leading down to the garden. The recycled rubber Eco Slate roof provides a contrast to the render and cedar-clad façade
The end result is a 250m² four-bed home which has been finished in render to the ground floor with cedar cladding above, adding warmth to the contemporary front elevation. To the rear, dormer windows and a strong gable offer a cottage-style feel to the home, with full-height glazed windows from Rationel to one aspect and two sets of glazed double doors on the ground floor allowing the living room and kitchen/diner to open out onto a raised decking area for outdoor dining. The recycled rubber Eco Slate roof covering completes the look, and was chosen for its benefits of recycled materials and zero breakages.
Bitten by the building bug, Ian has now left Lime Technology and founded, with a partner, a company called Greencore Construction. The aim is not so much to build complete houses, as to assist self builders and others with thermal modelling and calculations, and to provide self builders with what he calls: "The second of the three stages of a building project."
The first stage, he explains, concerns everything to do with the foundations, and the third stage is the fit-out. "We aim to help self-builders with the superstructure — the external walls and the roof envelope," Ian explains. "Unlike stages one and three, this is the area where traditionally the UK building industry has a bad record. Three men erected all the panels in this house in two days, and it is amazingly energy efficient and nice to live in. Surely this is the way the self build market should move in the future?"
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Ken Shuttleworth on Building Homes | These panels proved effective during the construction process, with the entire build taking just seven months. During the build, the couple moved into a caravan on site where Simone, who project managed the build, could be on hand at all times to oversee proceedings while Ian assisted with the build along with a two-man building team of Paul McKenna and Dave Ledger, who erected all the panels in just two days.
Offering a splash of colour to the neutral interiors, the bespoke shaker-style kitchen with emerald pearl granite worktops includes a centre island suitable for gathering round, as well as providing additional workspace. The ceramic floor tiles are from British Ceramic Tiles and have been laid above underfloor heating which keeps this surface warm underfoot
A High-Performance Home
The Pritchetts were conscious of achieving a low-carbon home and took measures to ensure any technologies brought into the house would work hard to reduce running costs. Thanks to its hemp/lime construction | 192 |
A Simple Guide to Decluttering Your Website - Technology Matters, Melbourne.
In 2019, decluttering is on trend.
You only need to look at one of the most popular shows on Netflix to see that less is certainly more as the new year kicks into gear. Marie Kondo,<|fim_middle|> space.
When it comes to modern website design, it is all about using less to say more. Here at Technology Matters, we recommend that you aim for simplification and minimalism to emphasise the key purpose of your website and optimise your marketing messages. If you follow these simple steps you are sure to find a lower bounce rate, a longer average time spent on your page, and higher conversions.
Naomi oversees Technology Matters' comprehensive social media packages, giving clients the lead in social media and communications. She doesn't just post cat videos and memes, either - she's dedicated to research and reporting, and a hell of a writer. | a self-professed 'crazy tidying fanatic,' brings the KonMari method to the small screen with her show Tidying Up, and encourages us to rid our lives of things that don't bring us joy.
When it comes to your business website, there is much that you can learn from this method. Many businesses websites are so cluttered with information and images that it becomes almost impossible for a user to navigate to the vital information. There is no joy in a website that drives traffic away, rather than keeps it on your page. Have you taken a look at your website recently to examine whether the marketing message and key purpose can be found among the other digital debris?
If not, then embrace the new year, and set yourself a goal to digitally declutter and implement a user-friendly website design with this simple guide.
For businesses, a website is like a virtual storefront. It is the place that your customers and clients visit to learn about your business, view what you have to offer, make decisions about whether or not to enlist your services, and form opinions about your brand. Much like if you walk into a store that is messy, when a customer lands on a page that is disorganised, it reflects poorly on your business.
However, if a customer arrives at a page that utilises an intelligent design and is fast to navigate, they will make a positive association with your business right away.
When it comes to your website, information architecture helps users to understand the virtual environment and locate the information they need quickly and easily. Information architecture involves creating maps, hierarchies, navigation and metadata to organise information in a coherent structure.
The overall aim of this style of user design is to build a website that aligns user experience with the objectives of your business. When designing your information architecture, you want to make sure you let your customers know they have come to the right place right away. Give them options, while presenting them with the most useful information to aid in decision making.
Some websites have many more pages than they actually need which may be full of redundant/out of date information or repeated information in multiple places and disorganised placement – socks in the undies drawer to extend the analogy. This ultimately makes visitors leave the page without finding what they came for. There are many times when more pages are good e.g. for SEO, but always the placement and relevance of the info is key.
Remember, intelligent information architecture arranges key elements in the most visually pleasing, and most accessible way possible. When a user is presented with loads of tabs, or a long menu, they will be overwhelmed with choice. Simplify and combine pages for the best results.
Just like Marie Kondo tells us, purge anything that isn't necessary, or isn't bringing you any practical joy. Look at every link, page, text box, image and element, and if it isn't serving a direct purpose, get rid of it. If you can't quickly determine the purpose of an object, it is likely that it doesn't have one. Minimal design is not only fashionable, but practical, so don't be afraid of white | 629 |
The greatest fantasy show in the history of TV, Game of Thrones is coming to an<|fim_middle|> only we are just 17 days away from it. But it is good that HBO isn't leaving the show with Season 8 as 5 more prequels are also on the way. | end in the next two months and it is going to feel like the end of an era when that happens. For the last 8 years, we've been crushing over this amazing emotional drama fantasy thriller extravaganza. But it is going to come to an end and we won't get anything as good as this ever again. There's still hope for getting something close to Game of Thrones, if not better as HBO has put 5 Prequel shows in development.
They've already ordered a pilot for one of those series and now things are moving forward faster than you could imagine! Coming from The Hollywood Reporter is a report that suggests that HBO has cast 5 actors to the pilot of their first Game of Thrones Prequel. Here are those actors – Marquis Rodriguez (Netflix's When They See Us), John Simm (Doctor Who and Life on Mars), Richard McCabe (Hulu's Harlots), John Heffernan (Collateral actor) and Dixie Egerickx (Patrick Melrose and The Little Stranger).
Moving ahead of the actors, we know that Jane Goldman is the one writer for this prequel series while the other writers developing other Game of Thrones prequels include Brian Helgeland (Legend), Max Borenstein (Kong: Skull Island), and Carly Wray (Mad Men, The Leftovers) with George R.R. Martin involved with different shows on different levels.
So get ready for the final season to arrive as | 295 |
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Chris B. Murphy is an editor and financial writer with more than 15 years of experience covering banking and the financial markets.
What Is TAAPS?
Treasury Automated Auction Processing System (TAAPS) is a computer network system developed by the Federal Reserve Bank to process bids and tenders received for Treasury securities.
Treasury securities trade through an auction process in the primary market. TAAPS receives tenders from brokers wishing to purchase marketable securities. Each bid is processed and reviewed automatically by TAAPS to ensure it complies with the Treasury's Uniform Offering Circular.
Treasury Automated Auction Processing System (TAAPS) is a computer system used developed to auction Treasury securities.
TAAPS receives bids and tenders from brokers and institutional investors who want to purchase marketable securities.
Each bid is processed and reviewed automatically by TAAPS to ensure it complies with regulations.
TAAPS allows institutions to purchase securities directly, reducing or eliminating intermediary costs.
How TAAPS Works
The Treasury Automated Auction Processing System (TAAPS) was developed to become the heart of the operational process for the auctioning of Treasury securities. The U.S. Government sells securities through the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve Bank to raise money to fund the national public debt.
The Treasury Department authorizes Federal Reserve Banks to act as fiscal agents of the United States so that they can carry out the announcement of the auction, the sale of the securities, and any applicable regulations. The auction is a bidding process in which the Treasury department sells debt securities. The auction's offering amount is the value of the Treasury, which is also called the bond's par value or face value.
The bidder is the person or party offering to buy the securities either by themselves or through a financial institution. Typically, institutional investors, including banks, brokers, dealers, investment funds, retirement funds, and pensions, foreign accounts, and insurance companies may bid on Treasury securities through TAAPS.
Benefits of TAAPS
TAAPS provides institutions with direct access to U.S. Treasury auctions, via their computer, in which the system electronically receives and processes tenders. TAAPS allows institutions to purchase securities directly, reducing or eliminating intermediary costs. However, individual investors do not have access to TAAPS and must use Treasury Direct or go through an organization with access to TAAPS.
History of TAAPS
Treasury auctions began in 1929 with the auctioning of 3-M<|fim_middle|> non-competitive bidding. Typically, a non-competitive tender is a bid usually made by a smaller investor, while a competitive tender is a bid made by a larger, institutional investor.
The interested parties submit bids, and at the closing times for those bids, TAAPS sorts out the bids and awards them to bidders according to a set of rules designed both to fund the Treasury at the lowest cost and to maintain a competitive financial market. Winning bids are determined, who then submit tenders, and the securities are issued to the winners.
Bill Announcement Definition
Bill announcement is a notice informing investors about the time, date and terms of the upcoming Treasury bill auction.
Bill Auction
Treasury bills are issued in electronic form through a bill auction bidding process, which is conducted every week.
Competitive Tender
Competitive tender is an auction process through which large institutional investors (also called primary distributors) purchase newly issued government debt.
Direct Bidder
A direct bidder is an entity that purchases Treasury securities at auction for a house account rather than on behalf of another party.
Treasury Bills (T-Bills)
A Treasury Bill (T-Bill) is a short-term debt obligation issued by the U.S. Treasury and backed by the U.S. government with a maturity of less than one year.
Bid-to-Cover Ratio Definition
The bid-to-cover ratio is the indicator of the demand strength for Treasury securities and is determined by comparing the number of bids received in an auction versus the amount sold.
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Using Treasury Automated Auction Processing System
Below is an explanation of some of the steps involved in a Treasury auction in which TAAPS is responsible for the following:
Receiving bids
Separating competitive and non-competitive bids
Ranking of competitive bids by increasing yield or discount rate
Preparing a summary of the auction results.
To use the TAAPS system, financial institutions must apply for an account. The application includes an agreement certifying that the institution is not engaging in fraud by trading Treasury securities and certification of authority that the contacts listed on the application have the power to use TAAPS on behalf of the organization.
Once a TAAPS account has been established, institutions follow the published schedule of auctions of various Treasury securities. For each auction, the Treasury announces the following information:
Amount of the security being sold
Date of the auction
Issue date of the security
Maturity date
Terms and conditions of the purchase
Schedules of auctions also include any applicable eligibility rules and the close times for competitive and | 293 |
Why Lusty Monk Mustard is so damn tasty
By Marla Milling December 17, 2012
When Asheville, N.C. resident Kelly Davis started whipping out batches of mustard, she wasn't trying to build a business. For her, it was all fun. A self-admitted "history geek," Kelly says she stumbled on a mustard recipe when combing through an old Victorian cookbook. She made some, liked it, and began taking it to potlucks and offering it wrapped in a bow as presents for those on her Christmas list<|fim_middle|> So we have two locations: Asheville, NC and Albuquerque, NM—all in the family," says Davis.
Lusty Monk Mustard is available in select stores and nationwide from their website.
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"Then I started working part time at a brewery, where the only thing we had to eat at the bar was pretzels," says Davis as she explains the growth. "I started handing it out and it gained a bit of a cult following."
Her Lusty Monk Mustard is now a must-have on the tables of many of her fans. The "Original Sin" is her best seller and can be used in any dish that calls for Dijon mustard, giving it a bit more zing. The "Burn in Hell" chipotle mustard took the grand prize at the Scovie Awards this year. The third variety produced is called "Altar Boy" honey mustard.
She named the product Lusty Monk Mustard after returning to her history books to research the history of mustard. "I came across a little tidbit about a very strict order of monks in the Middle Ages who weren't allowed to eat mustard because they thought it was an aphrodisiac. I thought that was funny and named my mustard, Lusty Monk," says Davis.
As demand grew, Davis and her brother, Scott, decided to invest in building a business. They took some "food entrepreneur" classes at a community college and launched their brand.
"Then my sister and her husband, who live in Albuquerque, decided I wasn't making it fast enough. They decided to start making the mustard in their area. | 284 |
Q: Why doesn't "adolescent" take any articles in "listen to adolescent agonising"?
"Now, if you will excuse me, I have better things to do than listen to adolescent agonizing ... good-day to you."
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'Adolescent' is a countable word. But why doesn't it take any articles in this context? I feel listen to an adolescent agonizing looks correct. Any thoughts?
A: It's being used as an adjective to modify the noun form of the verb "agonizing".
By not using an article he is saying he refers to (and dismisses) all adolescent agonizing rather<|fim_middle|>, I have better things to do than listen to adolescent agonizing ... good-day to you."
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Is perfectly correct. This sentence is said in an haughty way. as the group of student are (for the character) inferior and ignorant compared to him.
| than just one instance.
A: I think you are parsing adolescent agonizing as noun + verb, but it is really adjective + noun. It may be more clear to you if we replace adolescent with a word that is definitely an adjective:
Now, if you will excuse me, I have better things to do than listen to
childish agonizing ... good-day to you.
A: You can use that phrase with no article, with the indefinite article or with the definite article.
If you are in a high school around exam time, and someone asks "why don't you go sit in the lunch room", you could respond with "the last thing I want to do is listen to adolescent agonizing". In this case, "agonizing" is used like a noun, and adolescent is used to modify it.
Then, if someone says "No, you need go talk to Tommy about his exam anxiety". You could response "I have better things to do than to listen to an adolescent agonizing about exams". Here, "adolescent" is a noun, and the "agonizing" is a verb.
If you avoid talking to Tommy, but another colleague comes by, looks over at Tommy, pointing him out to you and says "listen to the adolescent agonizing - it must be exam time". Now, depending on how you emphasize things, there are two choices. In one case, your colleague is truly talking about Tommy, in which case "adolescent" is the noun, and the "agonizing" is a verb. But, he/she could be speaking in a more general sense, and it's closer to the non-article version, with "agonizing" as a noun and "adolescent" modifying it.
A: It cannot be an adolescent agonizing because in the context, the author is describing a group of young people.
So:
"Now, if you will excuse me | 391 |
Ted red Agentah Baker Baker Bag Shoulder Ted Agentah Shoulder bordeaux On an August day, Tracey Williams was out beach-combing with her dog, a daily routine for the resident of Cornwall, when she came across an odd-looking object lying on the sand. It was a grayish slab stained brown by the elements, weighing about 3 lbs. and measuring 13 inches across—roughly the size of a kitchen chopping board. The word "Tjipetir" was inscribed on it.
In time, Williams would trace the blocks to an eponymous plantation in<|fim_middle|>ers, then fashioned into blocks and stamped with the facility's name. | western Java active in the late 19th century and early 20th century. The facility harvested the latex of a particular Southeast Asian tree, bordeaux Shoulder Ted red Baker Agentah Shoulder Agentah Baker Ted Bag palaquium gutta. The milky white liquid was known as gutta percha, and it was extracted by crushing the tree's leaves under granite bould | 79 |
The subject under debate was whether the government should subsidize preschools. But the real question was whether a machine called IBM Debater could out-argue a top-ranked human debater. The answer, on Monday night, was no. CNET: Harish Natarajan, the grand finalist at the 2016 World Debating Championships, swayed more among an audience of hundreds toward his point of view than the AI-powered IBM Debater did toward its. Humans, at least those equipped with with degrees from Oxford and Cambridge<|fim_middle|> of the ancient game of Go in 2017. But IBM still showed that artificial intelligence can be useful in situations where there's ambiguity and debate, not just a simple score to judge who won a game. "What really struck me is the potential value of IBM Debater when [combined] with a human being," Natarajan said after the debate. IBM's AI was able to dig through mountains of information and offer useful context for that knowledge, he said. | universities, can still prevail when it comes to the subtleties of knowledge, persuasion and argument. It wasn't a momentous headline victory like we saw when IBM's Deep Blue computers beat the best human chess player in 1997 or Google's AlphaGo vanquish the world's best human players | 63 |
Discussion in 'Muppet Appearances' started by BoyRaisin2, Sep 9, 2004.
Stars will be interviewed by a pig and a frog as they make their way down the red carpet to the Emmys on Sept. 19.
Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog will be doing interviews<|fim_middle|> were where. The other hosts seemed to make fun of them a little bit though. The use of Kermie was a little odd. And that woman host kept reffering to them as the muppets instead of Kermit and Piggy. The muppets will kind of have to fight their way back into the adult audience.
The muppets will kind of have to fight their way back into the adult audience.
Ahh, a challenge. I think they can do it--there's enough general goodwill out there for the Muppets that can be tapped into if they are handled right. | during an hour-long special leading up to the Emmys.
George Lopez will give his take on things and Sam Saboura of "Extreme Makeover" will give his opinions on what the stars are wearing.
Tom Bergeron and Maria Menounos will host "Countdown to the Emmys."
ALRIGHT! That is so cool! It'll be a great way to show Disney that these guys are great with improv.
Cool beans! Looking forward to seeing them in action.
I remember a lot of us here saying how great it would be to see Miss Piggy on the red carpet. Glad to see something similar finally happened!
Hey neat, an actual reason to watch the Emmys.
SWEET!!! Im gonna have to tape it now!
Perhaps the Emmys will be entertaining this year.
Emmy? Will Jackie be there too? Muffins, envelopes, and FOMPs all round?
TV Guide had a little picture of K and Miss P with this announcement. So far so good with Disney. . .
So far so good with Disney. . .
Yep... Ya got that right!
I've been pleased thus far, they seem to really be trying to get awareness out.
Ok, so I watched some of it. It was kind of "eh". Kermit and Piggy weren't any worse than the other pre-show hosts basically yelling into a microphone. Eric was ok. Steve doesn't seem to do so well as Kermit when doing unscripted stuff. He constantly goes for the corny joke that never hits.
Muppet presence is good and at least Disney is using the muppets and not letting them sit in storage. Maybe this isn't so bad after all. I do wish they'd use some other characters for this live stuff though. How about Kermit and Fozzie, Gonzo and Rizzo, Statler and Waldorf, or another Muppet duo. But Kermit and Piggy are better than no muppets at all. And they are being used ousdie of kids stuff. I mean, no kid is watching the emmies.
I seen part of it, and like you said it was ok. Oh well, at least they are getting used.
i thought it was funny when kermit tricked piggy into looking away while he kissed cheryl hines. i also thought it was funny that piggy reconigized that west wing guy not from the west wing but from the doris day show. an obscure reference but very piggy. it seems that frank/eric characters always make obsure pop culture references.
I love it so far! Yeah, you gotta listen hard for all the jokes amongst the shouting, but it's well worth it for me!
Teri Hatcher was also a great plus!
I was really happy to see how often they cut back to Kermit and Piggy during the show. They almost seemed to be co-hosting it!
From what I saw they all had about the same amount of time. It mostly had to do with what stars | 617 |
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The next level: Kids' trauma center hits important new high
The pediatric trauma team includes Dr. Meryle Eklund, Dr. Chris Streck, injury prevention coordinator Aynsley Birkner, nurse Madeline Gehrig and nurse practitioner Jennifer Waterhouse. Photo by Sarah Pack
The trauma center at MUSC Children's Health has become the only kids' trauma center in the state to achieve Level 1 verification from the American College of Surgeons. That's the highest possible level.
Surgeon Chris Streck directs the pediatric trauma medical program at the Medical University of South Carolina and serves as a professor of surgery and pediatrics. "The main factors that distinguish Level 1 pediatric trauma centers are volume and quality of patient care. That includes 24/7 coverage by specialists including pediatric trauma surgeons, neurosurgeons, orthopedic surgeons, emergency medicine providers, anesthesiologists, child abuse treatment experts and intensive care unit providers. Injury prevention outreach and quality and volume of research are also major factors."
Nurse Madeline Gehrig manages the trauma program at MUSC Children's Health. "What this verification means to our patients and their families is the assurance that they are receiving safe, innovative, and high-quality care from some of the most knowledgeable and skilled medical providers in the industry."
Streck said the trauma center team cares for kids hurt in major accidents or events. "The most common severe mechanisms of trauma that we care for are motor vehicle collisions, pedestrians and bicyclists struck by automobiles, falls from a height, bicycle- and golf cart-related injuries, gun and knife-related trauma, burns and child abuse."
MUSC Children's Health was first named a pediatric Level 1 trauma center several years ago by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. Then, DHEC started requiring hospitals to meet even higher standards set by the American College of Surgeons to keep their designations, which MUSC Children's Health has now done. It's one of just 59 Level 1 pediatric trauma centers in the country.
Gehrig said a team of reviewers from the American College of Surgeons visited MUSC Children's Health to review its patient care and quality improvement efforts before verifying<|fim_middle|> hour, where early intervention can really make a difference."
In other words, the earlier a trauma patient gets expert care, the better the chance of survival. "The pediatric trauma center at MUSC Children's Health benefits children across the Lowcountry. We also get transfers of severely injured children from across the eastern half of South Carolina," Streck said. "Having a high-level trauma center is like having good community amenities like parks, roads, schools and libraries where you may not inherently recognize their daily value until you need the resource, and then it's very meaningful."
MUSC Children's Health will open a new hospital in about six months. Streck said it will offer more state-of-the art options for trauma patients and their families "Our new facility's infrastructure will match the high level of care that we provide to kids. This is a win for everyone in the community."
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Keywords: Pediatrics | its Level 1 status. "The process included evaluating our injury prevention and outreach efforts; our care management through an extensive chart review interviewing leaders, doctors, nurses and other care team providers; and touring the trauma center to evaluate the resources available for injured children."
Streck said that unfortunately, more than 90 percent of children hurt in the United States aren't taken to trauma centers, at least not initially. "In trauma care, we refer to the golden | 93 |
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The Shop Around The Corner
The Shop Around The Corner – Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Romantic Comedy 1 hour 33 minutes Black And White 1940.
The Story: Much ado about two young folks who bicker but, unbeknownst to one another, are writing pen-pal love letters to one another all along.
It's always been a great story, and Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing is but its extreme variant. Here we do not have nobility and rapiers and Dogberry. Instead, we have MittleEuropean pastry by its greatest chef, Ernst Lubitsch. If we are not in Vienna we are in Budapest, and if not there, at least in the high season of that Hollywood middle-class bliss, light comedy. With a truth all its own.
It's a perfect Christmas movie. For it works itself toward snow and galoshers, and decorating the holiday shop window as a plot twist.
Margaret Sullivan has top billing because everyone in those days adored her; indeed Jimmy Stewart in his early acting days had a crush on her, but his friend Henry Fonda married her. Yet Lubitsch focuses his camera on Stewart, for as we all know to our joy he was one of the great comic actors of film.
Comic actor?
Yes, but not the Jerry Lewis sense. You might better say, or I might better say "an actor of comedy of character." Which is to say he appears to be unwitting in his effects, although a master of them.
Well, he's marvelous for actors to watch, and endearing to us all. In Stewart's delivery, when he wants, there is something inherently humanly humorous. What is it, would you say?
His attack on the material is preceded by a resident forgiveness. It simply has not gone out of date. But why do we root for him? Of course, he's an accessible type, but with the most sensual of mouths. Skinny. With a voice like the spring on an old screen door.
In all this, I must stop. I am<|fim_middle|>, except for Jose Ferrer who mercifully picks up all his cues and for Claude Rains who gets on with it also. Charlton Heston is well cast as the humorless John The Baptist and delvers his lines through his stentorian teeth like a baleen whale in a vomitorium. Sal Mineo is marvelous as a cripple who is able to walk; his is the best performance in the film and probably of his career. Sometimes the old sermons are moving, but the picture does not seem to be, except once, when Sydney Poitier picks up the cross from Jesus' stumbled back and helps him along with it. Much of the heart of the film seems to be kept at a distance, a beautiful distance, true. The miracles are all off to one side, never shown; only their effect is shown. The effect of Jesus on his apostles is never shown, always granted. Eventually, the film got out of control, and Jean Negulesco shot the Jerusalem street scenes and David Lean cast and shot the Claude Rains sequence. Alfred Newman scored it with ancient instruments, his own score, and Handel's Messiah which is quite grating. Some day if I have the chance I will see this film in a movie house. William Mellor, Stevens' favorite photographer shot it, and there isn't a scene in it that isn't rapturously beautiful. From a camera point of view. Whether from a human point of view and a narrative point of view, I wonder.
Posted in ACTING STYLE: YOU-COULD-DRIVE-A-TEAM-OF-HORSES-THROUGH-THE-PAUSES, Angela Lansbury, BIBLICAL EPIC, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, Claude Rains, David McCallum, Directed by George Stevens, Donald Pleasence, Dorothy McGuire, Ed Wynn, John Wayne, José Ferrer, Joseph Schildkraut, Martin Landau, Max von Sydow, Pat Boone, Paul Stewart, Richard Conte, Robert Blake, Robert Loggia, Roddy MacDowell, Shelley Winters, Sidney Poitier, Telly Savalas, Van Heflin | raving. For he is is surrounded by tip-top actors. Joseph Schildkraut as the unctuous nephew of the boss played with hearty bluster by Frank Morgan and by that true-blue actor Felix Bressart as Stewart's buddy in the shop.
The Shop Around The Corner is generally considered to be a perfect film. It is thought of as Lubitsch's greatest comedy, one of the greatest comedies ever made.
Is it, though? Join the line and find out. Or find out again. I saw it when it first came out in 1940 and remember it fondly. I saw it again last week and, as you can see, remember it fondly.
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Suez –– directed by Allan Dwan. Historical Epic. Ferdinand de Lesseps struggles to build the Suez Canal. 104 minutes Black and White 1938.
He struggles to dig, he has a setback, a woman encourages him, he struggles to dig, he has a set back, a woman encourages him, he struggles to dig, he has a setback, a woman discourages him. The monotony of the story is supposedly counterbalanced by the beauty of the stars and the production values. And the costumes. Except that the film is over-costumed, so you cannot believe for a minute that anyone ever wore any of those clothes to anyplace but on the way to a movie set. Loretta Young is so dressed, she not only looks like the bride on the wedding cake, she looks like the cake itself.
How did people ever go the bathroom in those clothes?
Well, that's not the sort of question you were supposed to ask of such films. In those days, you were supposed to be humbly and unquestionably grateful for and trusting of the validity of the "history lesson". Right now all one can say is that Mister de Lesseps was somehow involved in the excavation. The digging itself was easy, since the isthmus in ancient days was navigable. It was the sand of preparation that had to be continually cleared away, and that is what makes up the story here. But we are given two wonderful big-time special effects, a fatal sandstorm and an avalanche set off by those Islamic terrorists again. They still don't know when to stop. The director Allan Dwan sure keeps things chugging along, though.
A big and experienced supporting cast cannot breathe life into the dialogue which is as stilted as the men's high collars, although Nigel Bruce, as usual, somehow manages it. The cast is headed up by Our Lady Of The Holy Wood, Loretta Young, and by Tyrone Power. They made delightful comedies together earlier on the 30s and were a popular duo.
Tyrone Power was a man so beautiful you become rapt to see what his face will do next. Since he is an actor of natural discretion, what you see is always authentic, although how he achieves it, given the lines, is impossible to guess, except that his modesty never rises to the level of the vulgarity of them. With Tyrone Power, what you see is what is made gettable by the fact that behind that face lies the quality that made him a great star, his kindness, sense of fun, his gentlemanliness. He's not vain and he doesn't have a mean bone in his body. He was inhumanly beautiful but not inhumanely beautiful.
The third star is Annabella, who was soon enough to become Tyrone Power's first wife. While a good deal older than Power, she is perfectly convincing as a hoydenish teenager. She is French, which makes her seem odd and out-of-place, since, while everyone else at court is French, she is the only one in the cast who actually is so. She is a gifted and very fine screen actor and is wonderful to watch, although might prove irritating to watch much longer.
Anyhow, this is a typical historical Hollywood contraption of the period. It is a showcase. It was a crowd pleaser. And Power and Young when young still are enjoyable to behold.
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The Diary Of Anne Frank – produced and directed by George Stevens. Tragedy. Eight people hide in an attic while vicious enemies roam the streets to find them. 180 minutes Black and White 1959.
As a film it has lost nothing to time; indeed it takes on power by its set decoration and photography, for both of which it won Oscars. And these are the important Oscars for such a film, since they give to it the feel of documentary. Shelly Winters also won one, and Joseph Schildkraut, who had won one in 1937, who is marvelous, was not even nominated. Lou Jacobi and Gusti Huber, as Mrs Frank, had done it with him on Broadway, and their performances are fresh and strong. Diane Baker and Richard Beymer play modest characters with modesty; every moment tells; we never lose them; we never stop caring about them. With Winters, as an actress, her uncertainty tends to push her art. This makes her always intrusive, and so she is often cast as a pushy woman falling apart.
The use of the Cinemascope camera here in cooperation with a three-storey set, divided by verticals like bars, and the use of full eight-person ensemble scenes bring great strength to what is a director's movie, which it had to be, since it had no stars and since the material is plotless and storyless, which it had to be, since it actually is a diary. So the direction is purely presentational and as such brilliant beyond expectation. We are never aware of "the direction;" nothing is showy; everything in honored that ought to be.
The difficulty is that one cannot identify with the actor playing Anne. She's inhumanly pretty and she's too old. She is never thirteen. In fact the actor was twenty, which is an entire time-zone away from thirteen. And there is something else wrong in that she looks like what she was, a young fashion model. Anne Frank was not a cover girl, but this young woman is a glamor-puss. (To see the part perfectly cast, see the television version.)
I don't know what Stevens had in mind – a combination of Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn? Did Stevens think to draw focus to her because of her looks? Did he see her as a great new discovery? The problem is you don't know what you're getting when you hire an unknown inexperienced actor. Anyhow, the problem is not that she is a fashion model, but that that she relates to a camera in a fashion model way, a way quite different from a movie camera relationship. She knows exactly how to present herself "beautifully," but that talent is irrelevant to Anne and disconsonnant with her as well. She is so pretty that she has long known how to use the charm of her looks to get what she wants and to get away with behaving as she wishes. Anne Frank was always "behaving" but to do so she had to summon something deep within her defiant nature quite different from the easy victories of a fashion model. Anne Frank was not "pretty," and the scene where this beauty-actress has to fish for a compliment about her looks is preposterous.
Besides, Anne Frank was a truly funny person; this actress is not. Mind you, the young woman who plays Anne does everything well; she has a right to be proud of her contribution and her work, but, through no real fault of her own, the result of having her in it at all, is that, instead of what we do with the Anne Frank of the book, we have no one to get behind as a human, no one to identify with.
Tremendous vitality pressing outward from inside a difficult girl is the inner truth of the outer truth of the vitality of these eight people caged just because they are Jews inside that loft. Inside a tiny diary is hidden away, as are hidden these eight, the right to live! The injustice of the closet is the mark of this story's greatness; the movie captures it and us. It is the greatest movie about being closeted ever made. It has not dated. It will never date.
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Posted in 1940s, ACTING STYLE: AMERICAN REALISTIC, Directed by George Stevens, DOCUDRAMA, FAMILY DRAMA, FILMED BY William Mellor, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, HISTORICAL DRAMA, Joseph Schildkraut, PRIZE WINNER, Shelley Winters, TRAGEDY, War Story, WARTIME ROMANCE, World War II
The Greatest Story Ever Told — directed by George Stevens. A prophet appears in the ancient Middle East and is believed and followed and then beset by political superstition.
3 hours and 19 minutes, Color, 1965.
It is not fair of me to review this film, for I have not seen it in a movie theatre, but only on my TV, which, while it is fairly large, cannot do justice to the size of the screen for which it was made. When Stevens was asked to choose between Panasonic and super-Panasonic, he chose the latter, although only two such cameras were available. Others were soon found. And the film was made as a story dependent upon its narration for a huge broad screen. Stevens had been a cameraman for years before he became a director, and he could combine the integrity of his material with the size of the canvas upon which he painted. The sort of the story and its telling were intrinsic to the size of the screen. The one had to do with the other, and to see this film on a TV screen is simply for most of it to fail to register as story. Or so I imagine. It may not be the Greatest Film ever made but it must be the most gorgeous. After research in the Holy Land, Stevens made it in remote Arizona settings which resembled that land of long ago. The flooding of Lake Powell was halted so it could be filmed as the Sea of Galilee. The settings are vast and panoramic and are meant, I believe to buoy up the power of the actions on the screen into a spiritual or at least other world dimension, and this I think they may succeed in doing. The individual scenes are made with Stevens' unerring sense of beauty; he was inspired by famous paintings and their lighting; many interiors are dark and mysterious, lit for chiaroscuro and for effects which his simple camera setups were primed. Max Von Sydow is fine as Jesus as an actor, but no one else comes up to be as good as to be even bad. Great actors like Van Heflin look as uncomfortable in their sandals as everyone else; God, their feet must have hurt. The crowd scenes are just like all Hollywood crowd scenes, a lot of people shaking their fists in the air at the same time unconvincingly. No one is at home their costumes. The actors pause portentous eons between syllables | 2,447 |
<|fim_middle|>. | DEMBA BA clearly has no plans to play second fiddle to Fernando Torres if his debut is anything to go by.
Ba scored twice as holders Chelsea eased into the fourth round and immediately gave manager Rafa Benitez something to think about just 24 hours after his £7.5million move from Newcastle.
Chelsea scraped through the first half of the season with Torres almost their only option up front. Better late than never, the Spaniard now has a genuine challenger in the Senegal striker.
It was not just Ba's brace that was so encouraging. It was his constant, clever movement, instant link-up with his new team-mates and the fact he looked at home as the focal point of Chelsea's attack straight away.
Ba was what Chelsea and many managers have hoped Torres would consistently be, but rarely is – and for £42.5m less.
There will be bigger tests for Ba, and Benitez made a point of talking up Torres, who was left looking glum on the bench at St Mary's. But his excitement about instant hero Ba was just as telling.
Ba said: "If I have to play with him, I will. If I have to be on the bench, I'll be on the bench and wait for the chance – and if he puts me on the pitch I'll prove I can play.
"The formation doesn't matter to me. I will play in any formation.
Jay Rodriguez fired Saints ahead, but Ba and Victor Moses hit back to send Chelsea in 2-1 up by half-time.
The rout was completed by Branislav Ivanovic, Ba again and Frank Lampard, with a penalty to take his Chelsea tally to 193 and him up to joint second in their all-time scorers list.
It was a day to forget for Saints, who also had defender Jose Fonte carried off with a knee injury.
Southampton (4-5-1): Boruc; Cork, Yoshida, Fonte (Hooiveld 63) Shaw; Davis, Schneiderlin (De Ridder 54), Puncheon (Lee 78), Ward-Prowse, Do Prado; Rodriguez. Booked: Schneiderlin, Ward-Prowse. Goal: Rodriguez 22.
Chelsea (4-2-3-1): Turnbull; Azpilicueta, Ivanovic (Lampard 65), Cahill, Cole; Ramires, Luiz; Hazard, Mata (Oscar 73), Moses (Marin 73); Ba. Goals: Ba 35, 61, Moses 45, Ivanovic 52, Lampard 83 pen | 545 |
In situ remediation could revitalize hazardous waste sites
Posted on February 23, 2017 February 21, 2017 by Max Hunt
BENEFICIAL BACTERIA: Enhanced bioremediation techniques will replace the ineffective pump-and-treat system at the Chemtronics Superfund site in Swannanoa. Photo courtesy of Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy
Hazardous waste sites are not exactly an endangered species: In Buncombe County alone, there are about 30 of them, relics of former manufacturing operations or other businesses that left behind toxic residues. Some of those companies were established before the 1970s, when pioneering environmental laws began regulating industrial pollution. Others simply ignored the laws governing disposal of dangerous chemicals. Either way, these contaminants are hard to get rid of, and expensive cleanup efforts can drag on for decades with no sure resolution.
The Chemtronics site in Swannanoa, for example, has been on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Priorities List since 1982, yet there's still no end in sight to the cleanup (see "Chemtronics: From Chemical Weapons to Conservation Easement," March 24, 2016, Xpress).
Meanwhile, over at the CTS site on Mills Gap Road in South Asheville, concerns about the pace and effectiveness of cleanup efforts have mobilized community activists (see "Toxic Legacy: CTS Site Breeds Heartache for Residents," June 1, 2016, Xpress).
But a group of innovative strategies collectively known as "in situ remediation" could dramatically improve the prospects for restoring these and other high-profile Superfund sites more quickly and at lower cost.
Instead of trying to mechanically remove contaminants from a property, in situ remediation harnesses the ability of certain chemicals or bacteria to tackle them where they are and turn them into harmless substances. Later this year, environmental contractors will implement such strategies at both those sites, under the auspices of EPA Region 4 officials. And meanwhile, another local project that's already underway — RiverLink's phytoremediation effort at the former Edaco junkyard on Amboy Road — gives some hints of these approaches' potential to reclaim festering hazardous waste sites.
A growing science
In situ remediation utilizes emerging technologies to insert various natural or mechanical elements into groundwater or contaminated soil. The specific strategy employed depends on both the particular pollutants involved and the physical characteristics of the site.
HERE and now: In situ remediation strategies have become popular as a cheaper, more effective way to address groundwater and soil contamination at local hazardous waste sites. Image via frtr.gov
At Chemtronics, plans call for bioremediation: using bacteria that actually consume harmful contaminants. Nutrients and oxygen will also be injected to help the bacteria do their job. At the CTS site, meanwhile, a concoction of chemical oxidizers, which attack and break down the contaminants' molecular structure, will be injected into the ground. And at RiverLink's Karen Cragnolin Park, native grasses infused with bacteria that "eat" the pollutants were planted at 26 places on the property in 2013.
Two key factors have helped such strategies gain traction: the emergence of newer technologies over the last two decades, and increased understanding of the limits of traditional cleanup methods.
"The National Research Council estimated that more than 126,000 sites have residual contamination preventing them from reaching closure," notes a 2016 report by Cascade Environmental, a consulting firm based in Washington state. "Of those, 12,000 sites have residual contamination that will require 50 to 100 years to achieve restoration. Many complex sites are characterized by persistent chlorinated solvent impacts that, for various reasons, have not responded to traditional or simplistic technologies."
In the past, notes hydrologist Frank Anastasi, "If you found something in the soil or the groundwater, you had to dig it up or suck it up and get it out of there. Now, we wised up and found out you can't always just do that, especially with groundwater."
In addition, he continues, older strategies such as pump-and-treat do little to address contamination in the surrounding soils and bedrock structures. "Think about drinking a soda at McDonald's," says Anastasi, a consultant to the POWER Community Advisory Group for the CTS site. "You suck the soda out through a straw and you think you've got it all; but if you let the ice melt a little bit, you suck some more out and you still taste some Coke."
Cheaper, more effective
Hydrologist Frank Anastasi, who has served as a consultant for community members at the CTS of Asheville site, likens older pump-and-treat systems used to address groundwater contaminants to an empty soda cup one gets at McDonald's. "You suck the soda out through a straw and you think you've got it all," he notes, "but if you let the ice melt a little bit, you suck some more out and you still taste some Coke." Photo courtesy of Frank Anastasi
The long-running cleanup efforts at Chemtronics seem to bear out that assessment. A series of samples and tests conducted by Altamont Environmental over a three-year period found that the pump-and-treat system that's been in operation since the early 1990s has been only 23 percent effective in removing contamination, according to EPA site supervisor Jon Bornholm.
He's overseen cleanup efforts at the site since the late 1980s, and he says the upkeep required to keep the pump systems functioning has been a constant nuisance. "They were having a big issue with iron buildup, as well as bacteria buildup, in extraction wells," Bornholm explains. "Plus, you have the expense of electricity for running the extraction wells, as well as the treatment systems, and also the cost of discharging treated groundwater to the sewer system and maintaining that discharge line. With in situ, we eliminate those costs."
After several years of on-site pilot studies at Chemtronics, officials settled on in situ bioremediation as the most promising alternative strategy. Altamont, says Bornholm, "was able to show that it was removing at least 51 percent" of the contaminants.
The Asheville-based consulting firm is currently designing a matrix of injection wells across the property near known contaminated groundwater "plumes." After that, contractors will inject a lactate solution (to give the bugs something to eat immediately), followed by emulsified vegetable oil (a long-term food source) and, to add more bacteria to the mix, "a bioaugmentation solution called KD-1."
"It's all about contact," notes Bornholm. "We want to make sure the bacteria get in contact with the contamination."
A two-pronged approach
Proposals for cleaning up the CTS site have been debated for years. On Nov. 22, the EPA announced that it had finally reached agreement with the site's potentially responsible parties on an interim action plan to address contamination on 3.1 acres of the former manufacturing facility, covering the most polluted portions of the site. Large concentrations of fuel oil mixed with trichloroethylene, a known human carcinogen, have been found there.
Two strategies will be implemented this year in different areas. On a 1.2-acre area directly beneath where the factory once stood, electrical resistance heating will be used to "basically boil the groundwater," so the TCE is released as a vapor, Anastasi explains.
Another 1.9 acres to the north of that will be treated by "injecting a chemical that will cause a change in the electron states of different compounds," he continues. "You end up chemically breaking down the TCE molecules into harmless substances." The heat strategy is used with TCE concentrations that are closer to the surface; the chemical treatment can get at toxics lower down.
BREAK it DOWN: The strategy of electrically heating water around the source of contaminants to boil out pollutants from the ground in vapor form will be implemented at the CTS of Asheville site in 2017. Image via frtr.gov
As with bioremediation, the solution injected into the ground must be brought into contact with the plumes of contaminated groundwater to be effective — and in many cases, that's easier said than done.
"Though the chemistry involved is relatively simple, the technology is not a simple one to implement," notes a report from the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, an arm of the Defense Department. "The subsurface environment can be difficult to control, and it can be challenging to achieve adequate distribution of the oxidants. In many cases, in situ chemical oxidation requires site-specific data that may not be available from typical site characterization investigations."
Electrical resistance heating, meanwhile, poses its own challenges. Vapor emissions must be monitored to ensure that they don't pose a risk to nearby residents.
As workers begin implementing these strategies at CTS, Anastasi explains, "They'll be monitoring for vapor in the air around the site and also the groundwater, to see if any of these [pollutants] are starting to get closer to people."
Vapor emissions came under scrutiny last year when ambient outdoor air testing conducted on properties adjacent to the Superfund site in the summer and fall of 2016 yielded higher TCE readings "than the concentrations historically detected in these areas," according to a report by Amec Foster Wheeler, a contractor hired by CTS to conduct the tests.
Neighboring homeowners refused to allow the EPA to conduct indoor testing, however, and later outdoor air samples showed lower TCE vapor levels.
Potential pitfalls
Despite in situ remediation's considerable promise, these methods, too, have their limits.
"No. 1, you have to have contamination that is amenable to it," says Anastasi. "No. 2, you have to find the remediation strategy that works best for that kind of contamination."
There can also be problematic side effects. "Some compounds … may be broken down into more toxic byproducts during the bioremediation process (e.g., TCE to vinyl chloride)," notes a Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable overview.
"When you change the chemistry in the ground, you change a lot of things," says Anastasi, who has 30 years' experience in the field. Minerals occurring naturally in the soil can react with the injected elements. In addition, pH levels must be carefully monitored to maintain an optimal environment for the chemicals or bacteria being used.
At Chemtronics, says Bornholm, the bacterial action can acidify the soil, leaching potentially hazardous elements such as magnesium from the rock. To combat this possibility, a neutralizing sodium bicarbonate solution will be inserted to create a buffer that allows the bacteria to multiply.
Promising signs
CLEANING CLIMAX?: Officials working at the CTS site and members of the surrounding community are optimistic that the new interim cleanup strategy will finally begin to address the long-standing contamination issues at the former electroplating facility. EPA estimates that these new remediation technologies could reduce TCE concentrations in the targeted areas by 95 percent over the next few years.Photo by Margaret Williams
"We're very hopeful that both the electrical resistance heating and the in situ chemical oxidation at CTS will have some really good results and get rid of a whole lot of the contamination that's still down in the soil and bedrock pretty quickly," says Anastasi. The EPA estimates that these new technologies could reduce TCE concentrations in the targeted areas by 95 percent over the next few years.
And at Chemtronics, Bornholm reports, the plan is to begin injecting bacteria "maybe once a year for a few years and then monitor the groundwater to make sure the levels [of the degraded contaminants] aren't going up and that we're not finding byproducts in the groundwater."
It will take years to determine how successful these efforts are. But Vicki Collins, a retired chemistry professor from Warren Wilson College who's<|fim_middle|>75 and older | studied the Chemtronics site since the 1980s, says her research into in situ bioremediation has been promising to date. The strategy, she notes, "has been used at several other former weapons facilities to address contamination." There is some concern about degraded byproducts of pollutants, but long-term studies at other sites have shown that this is a safe solution to groundwater contamination.
And in the meantime, RiverLink's phytoremediation project gives further reason for hope. In December, the nonprofit proudly reported that samples taken at 26 contamination areas in the park were all found to be below the EPA's safety threshold.
"The property now faces another round of testing, after which a landscape plan will be developed, moving the site closer to becoming a link in the greenway paralleling Amboy Road and the French Broad River," said RiverLink, calling the project "one more chapter in our history of successful park and greenway creation."
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Bikers Against Prostate Cancer is a 501(c) non-profit organization started in January 2011 by John Bing. Our goal is to raise awareness of prostate cancer, the importance of early detection, testing, diagnosis, treatment options including current research findings, diet and exercise. John's ultimate goal was to help others; therefore, in addition to providing a reliable source of information, we are organizing an effort to provide assistance to others affected by prostate<|fim_middle|> the kidney to the bladder). He was given 90 days to live and a 30% chance of making it 3 years by the doctors at the Mayo Clinic in MN. That was in August of 2010. John and his wife began researching everything they could about prostate cancer, and tried multiple therapies in addition to medical treatments administered by his doctors. He felt compelled to warn others about prostate cancer, because he did not want anyone to go through what he endured. John continued to work for as long as he could and rode his motorcycle up to the time of his death in January 2013. John's cancer had spread to every organ in his abdomen, his entire spine, and his brain. He NEVER quit fighting! He really did fight the good fight. He made every day special for his wife and two young children, and his legacy will live on. | cancer. Having experienced the side effects of treatment (from a caregiver's perspective), we believe patients could benefit from a wide array of services, including help with lawn care, housekeeping, home maintenance, transportation, psychological support as well as a trustworthy source of information. All of our proceeds are used to help men and their families who are fighting prostate cancer.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Former world rally champion Richard Burns has died after a long illness, a statement issued on behalf of his family said on Saturday.
The Briton, who was 34, died on Friday evening of a brain tumour with<|fim_middle|>. I competed on some of the same club events, serviced next to him on one of his first RACs, watched his early career with interest from the side of forest tracks and the back of the field.
He learnt to drive rally cars before he could legally drive â€" passed his test on his 17th birthday (iirc) and was competing at club level the following weekend. Although he didn't have the natural talent and mercurial brilliance of McRae, one always knew he would 'make it' â€" nothing was more certain. In rallying there's an axiom â€" some drivers start fast, crash a lot and learn to be safer slowly, other drivers start slower and safer and learn to get quicker. Burns was in the latter category â€" I don't remember him ever totalling a car or even crashing early on in his career. His achievement in become world rally champion was all the greater for that.
He brought a new commitment and professionalism to the sport â€"in terms of driving - in this country. Everything was dedicated to his rise to the top, fitness, non-drinking, non-smoking, a thorough grounding in the public relations needed to get sponsors - alien concepts to us more amateur competitors with dreams of success. If there are any youngsters reading this, he's a model for what you can achieve with will power if you keep your eye on the ball.
Although I gave up the sport and stopped following it a long while ago, (it seems), it's still a shock and he's sadly missed.
unbelievable, i think ill go play his playstation game.
Just saw on TV http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_frown.gif.
Its a shame.. great driver.
I was fortunate to see Burns at full boogy in the WRC.
He was a talented driver and a likeable person.
I really am shocked, i wondered where he had got to, so young, a real shame, he was at his peak before this illness got him, RIP. | his partner, family and close friends at his bedside. He had been in a coma for some days.
Burns, who in 2001 with Subaru became the only English driver to win the world championship, was diagnosed with the tumour while with Peugeot in 2003 after blacking out at the wheel on his way to the British Rally in Wales.
He had been due to return to Subaru in 2004 but the illness forced him to withdraw from that season.
Burns, overall runner-up in 1999 and 2000 and winner of 10 rounds of the world rally championship, had a course of chemotherapy and radiotherapy last year and in April this year underwent brain surgery.
"From the outset, Richard knew that the odds were heavily against him and yet he fought his illness with bravery and good humour," said the statement.
"Having undergone both chemotherapy and radiotherapy, he was able to leave hospital in summer 2004. For a while his health showed signs of improvement but then after six months it once again began to decline.
"Determined not to give up, he opted for surgery earlier this year. This alleviated some of the symptoms of his illness and enabled him to remain active," the statement added.
"At Castle Combe in August he attended a parade of the rally cars that he drove throughout his career and was touched by the warmth of the reception he received.
"However there was to be no miracle and in recent days he lapsed into a coma.
He died on the fourth anniversary of his championship win.
Salute to an outstanding motorist.
RIP to a true professional.
A few years younger than me, he was foremost of a crop of new drivers coming through at the same time, when I was young and idealistic, who made me realise that I'd never make it to the upper echelons of the sport | 389 |
Almost 900m adolescents and adults are illiterate in the developing world, yet most policy discussions focus on the educational circumstances of primary aged children. As a result non-formal educational programs for adolescents and adults are given very little support, and this group is virtually ignored in international agreements such as the millennium declaration. This article presents the first serious attempt at evaluating the impact of a non-formal education program. Results show significant learning achievement over the academic year, as well as strong development impacts of the program in non-learning dimensions of participants' lives. These positive impacts, plus the significantly lower unit costs and self-targeted nature of the program provide strong evidence that this type of program can be an important part<|fim_middle|>6366/.
Agodini, R., & Dynarski, M. (2004). Are experiments the only option? A look at dropout prevention programs . Review of Economics and Statistics, 86(1), pp. 180-194.
Aoki, A., & Oxenham, J. (2002). Including the 900 million plus. The World Bank HDNED, Washington, DC, mimeo.
Arcia, G., Porta, E., & Laguna, J. R. (2004). Análisis de los factores asociados con el rendimiento académico en 3° y 6° grado de primaria. Ministry of Education, Culture and Youth, Government of Nicaragua, Managua, Nicaragua, mimeo.
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Sianesi, B. (2004). An evaluation of the Swedish System of Active Labor Market Programs in the 1990s . Review of Economics and Statistics, 86(1), pp. 133-155.
Smith, J., & Todd, P. (2005). Does matching overcome LaLonde's critique of non-experimental estimators? . Journal of Econometrics, 125(1–2), pp. 305-353.
Todd, P., & Wolpin, K. (2003). On the specification and estimation of the production function for cognitive achievement . Economic Journal, 113(February), pp. F3-F33.
van Ravens, J., & Aggio, C. (2006). The Costs of Goal 4 and Life. Background paper for the Education for All Global Monitoring Report, UNESCO. | of the poverty reduction and human capital enhancement strategy of developing countries with large illiterate adult populations.
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Objective: Platelet concentrates (PC) are transfused to prevent or treat bleeding in patients with severe thrombocytopenia or platelet function defects. To distinguish between platelet populations in platelet survival studies cell labeling is often required. We established under GMP conditions a non-radioactive platelet labeling method with iron oxide nanoparticles (NP) contained in Resovist® (Bayer AG, Germany). In vitro platelet function is not influenced by the labeling method, in addition survival studies in NOD/SCID mice indicate similar survival behaviour compared to non labeled platelets. Here we report on particle internalization into platelets and the stability of magnetic labeling in vitro and ex vivo.
Methods: Platelets from PC and freshly isolated from whole blood were incubated with fluorescent iron oxide nanoparticles (NanoscreenMAG-CMX-R, Chemicell, Germany) with similar structure to Resovist® for 1 hour at 37 °C. After purifying cells from excess nanoparticles, cells were analyzed by electron microscopy and fluorescence microscopy for detailed localization of NP. Labeling rate was determined by flow cytometry, mean intracellular iron content by atomic absorption spectroscopy. Labeling stability was analyzed over 24 hours by flow cytometry. Furthermore magnetic labeled platelets were added to whole blood samples in order to determine labeling stability ex vivo. Samples were taken at certain time points within 24 hours and analyzed by flow cytometry.
Results: Platelets internalize nanoparticles mainly in the open canalicular system (OCS), some are found in the alpha-granula. Only a small percentage of nanoparticles is found on the outer cell membranes. Labeling rates differ between platelets from PC (44.2%±21.2%) and platelets freshly prepared from whole blood (78.8%±9.1%). The mean cellular iron content per platelet is 0.33 pg±0.02 pg for PC and 0.51 pg±0.06 pg for platelets from whole blood. After spiking magnetic labeled platelets into whole blood, the labeling rate of platelets remained stable. We observed no exchange of NP between the labeled platelets and non-labeled platelets<|fim_middle|> any measurable exchange of NP between platelets. | in whole blood.
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Proclamation of the new King
A crowd of<|fim_middle|> before the Proclamation was read
Part of the large Crowd gathered to listen to the Proclamation | several hundred gathered round the Minster Green and in the High Street Sunday afternoon for the Town Council Statement and Proclamation of the new King.
On this sad but historic occasion The Town Crier and Town Mayor's Serjant Chris Brown called for silence before the Town Mayor, Cllr Carol Butter first announced the Town Council Statement which was then followed by the reading of the Proclamation. It concluded with GOD SAVE THE KING and this was repeated by the Official Guests. All present then joined in saying God Save The King.
The Town Crier then called for Three Cheers for His Majesty The King before the Wimborne Militia fired a Militia Salute.
The Town Mayor with the Rector, Curate, the Revd Nick Wells, the Town Crier and the Militia at the conclusion of the event
The Town Crier, The Mayor and the Rector in conversation | 178 |
Warwick Road, Carlisle
Even the best laid plans can sometimes go awry. We are travelling home from North Wales to Edinburgh, by train – on my birthday. A restaurant is booked for the evening of our arrival. What can possibly go wrong?
Well, plenty as it turns out. We haven't factored in the possibility of near-biblical weather conditions that put an impenetrable flood between us and our home city. At Preston, we manage to fight our way aboard a train heading north but we are warned that it cannot possibly go any further north than Carlisle, a place we've never visited.
Once ensconced in a frantically-sought hotel room, we remind ourselves that I'm supposed to be enjoying a birthday meal tonight, so we put out an online shout to various groups asking for recommendations in Carlisle. We get plenty of suggestions but one name keeps recurring. Alexandro's Greek Restaurant. And, as it transpires, humping our baggage in the direction of our hotel, we happen to walk right past the place. Kismet? Perhaps. At any rate, I venture inside and am able to secure a table for two.
A few hours later, we're back, suitably fortified by a couple of drinks at the rather swish (but very friendly) Barton's Yard, just a few steps away. The place is busy – it's a Friday night after all – and we settle down to look at the extensive menu, while the unmistakable sound of bazoukis twang happily away in the background. Memories of tavernas on remote Greek islands come drifting back to me. We notice that, for thirty pounds a head, we can order a three course mezze – a chef's selection of all the best dishes on offer. This absolves us of the responsibility of actually making a decision so we order that and settle back in our seats. We don't have to wait long.
The starters arrive in a cluster because they're all designed to go together. There's a delectable trio of dips, freshly made hummus, tzatziki and taramosolata, with a bowl of fresh bread and a grilled pitta .There are kaserokoketes, deep fried croquettes stuffed with mixed cheeses, there's sarmadakia, vine leaves stuffed with rice and raisins, as well as a bowl of fasolia fournou, a delightfully spiced stew of butter beans with tomato, chilli and oregano. Of course, I've eaten all of these before – usually on Greek holidays – but they are perfectly executed and mouthwateringly indulgent. We polish them off very quickly indeed.
The main courses follow swiftly on. There's a generous platter of barbecued chicken on skewers, succulent and delic<|fim_middle|> Jenny and June are not presented here as curiosities, but as troubled young people, let down by a system totally lacking in empathy, keen to other them, to set them apart. We see them as little girls (Eva-Arianna Baxter and Leah Mondesir-Simmonds) and as young women (Tamara Lawrance and Letitia Wright), by turns mischievous and vulnerable, selfish and self-absorbed. The four performances are exemplary, like a house of mirrors, amplifying the twins' co-dependence, as well as the monstrous cruelty of sending them to an institution destined to destroy them, breaking two butterflies on a barbaric wheel.
Smoczynska imbues the girls' story with humanity: there is sweetness here, and humour, as well as misery and obsession. It's a thought-provoking, insightful piece of work.
Posted in Film and tagged Agnieszka Smoczynska, Andrea seigel, Cineworld, Edinburgh, Eva-Arianna Baxter, Jennifer Gibbons, Jodhi May, June Gibbons, Leah Mondesir-Simmonds, Letitia Wright, Marjorie Wallace, Tamara Lawrance on December 10, 2022 by Bouquets & Brickbats. Leave a comment | ately spiced, and a beef stifado, slow-cooked until it virtually melts in the mouth. There's moussaka (of course there's moussaka!) but this is better than most I've sampled over the years, full of flavour and splendidly aromatic. Then there's a wonderful Horiatiki – a Greek salad, which features chunks of some of the best feta I've tasted on this side of the Mediterranean, and just in case we can find room for it, there's also a bowl of saffron rice.
We've often observed that it's generally the puddings that let a restaurant down, but happily this is not the case here. The final platter features chunks of baklava, given a festive twist by the inclusion of mincemeat. This is a substance I usually dislike but not so here, because the result is gorgeously gooey and rather splendid. So are the karydopita, slices of walnut and cinnamon sponge soaked in vanilla and lemon syrup and topped with crushed walnuts. Add a couple of scoops of homemade ice cream and a selection of soft fruit and we are struggling to finish, but reluctant to leave so much as a crumb.
Alexandro's is a family-run business that nails its objectives with aplomb. The staff are friendly and informative, and the atmosphere is relaxed. I really have no complaints. Should you find yourself in Carlisle with time on your hands, a visit to this fabulous Greek restaurant should be high on your 'to do' list. It doesn't entirely make up for being stuck in the wrong city at an awkward time of year, but it certainly helps.
Posted in Food and tagged Alexandro's, Barton's Yard, Carlisle, Greek restaurant, Warwick Road on December 31, 2022 by Bouquets & Brickbats. Leave a comment
Theatre Bouquets 2022
After the slim pickings of the last two years, 2022 feels like a palpable return to form: finally, emphatically, theatre is back! We've relished the wide range of productions we've seen over the year. As ever, it was difficult to choose our particular favourites, but those listed below have really resonated with us.
Singin' in the Rain (Festival Theatre, Edinburgh)
Singin' in the Rain is a delight from start to finish. It never falters, never loses pace and manages to honour the great film that inspired it. One of the most supremely entertaining shows I've seen in a very long time. Slick, assured, technically brilliant – it never puts a hoof wrong.
Wuthering Heights (King's Theatre, Edinburgh)
In this Wise Children production, Emma Rice strips Wuthering Heights down to its beating heart, illuminates its essence. This is a chaotic, frenzied telling, a stage so bursting with life and energy that it's sometimes hard to know where to look. It's dazzling; it's dizzying – and I adore it.
Red Ellen (Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh)
Red Ellen is a fascinating tale, ripped from the pages of political history. Wils Wilson's propulsive direction has Ellen hurtling from one scene to the next, which keeps the pot bubbling furiously.
Prima Facie (NT Live, The Cameo, Edinburgh)
This is a call to action that walks the walk, directly supporting The Schools Consent Project, "educating and empowering young people to understand and engage with the issues surrounding consent and sexual assault". It's also a powerful, tear-inducing play – and Jodie Cromer is a formidable talent.
Feeling Afraid as if Something Terrible is Going to Happen (Roundabout @ Summerhall, Edinburgh)
Samuel Barnett inhabits his role completely, spitting out a constant stream of pithy one liners and wry observations with apparent ease. Marcelo Dos Santos' script is utterly compelling and Matthew Xia's exemplary direction ensures that the pace is never allowed to flag.
Hungry (Roundabout @ Summerhall, Edinburgh)
This sharply written two-hander examines the relationship between Lori (Eleanor Sutton), a chef from a relatively privileged background, and Bex (Melissa Lowe), a waitress from the local estate. This is a cleverly observed exploration of both class and race, brilliantly written and superbly acted. Hungry is a class act, so assured that, even amidst the host of treasures we saw at this year's Roundabout, it dazzles like a precious gem.
A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings (Summerhall (Main Hall), Edinburgh)
It's hard to encapsulate what makes this such a powerful and moving experience, but that's exactly what it is – a spellbinding slice of storytelling, so brilliantly conceived and engineered that it makes the incredible seem real. You'll believe a man can fly.
The Tragedy of Macbeth (Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh)
Let's face it, we've all seen Macbeth in its various shapes and guises – but I think it's fairly safe to say we've never seen it quite like this. This raucous, visceral reimagining of the story captures the essence of the piece more eloquently than pretty much any other production I've seen.
The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh)
This was Martin McDonagh's debut piece and, while it might not have the assuredness of his later works, it nonetheless displays all the hallmarks of an exciting new talent flexing his muscles. The influence of Harold Pinter is surely there in the awkward pauses, the repetitions, the elevation of innocuous comments to a weird form of poetry – and the performances are exemplary.
Don't. Make. Tea. (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh)
Don't. Make. Tea. is a dystopian vision of an all-too credible near future, a play laced with dark humour and some genuine surprises. Cleverly crafted to be accessible to the widest possible audience, it's an exciting slice of contemporary theatre.
Susan Singfield & Philip Caveney
Posted in Theatre and tagged A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, Assembly Roxy, Don't. Make. Tea., Eleanor Sutton, Emma Rice, Feeling Afraid as if Something Terrible is Going to Happenis, Festival Theatre, Harold Pinter, Hungry, Jodie Comer, Lyceum Theatre, Marcelo Dos Santos, Martin McDonagh, Matthew Xia, Melissa Lowe, Prima Facie, Red Ellen, Roundabout@Summerhall, Samuel Barnett, Singin' in the Rain, Summerhall, The Beauty Queen of Lenane, The King's Theatre, The Tragedy of Macbeth, The Traverse Theatre, Traverse Theatre, Wils Wilson, Wise Children, Wuthering Heights on December 29, 2022 by Bouquets & Brickbats. Leave a comment
Film Bouquets 2022
2022 was a surprisingly good year for film, although – as cinephiles – it was worrying to note that audiences seemed happy enough to continue watching movies at home after last year's lockdowns ended. Cinemas were feeling the pinch and there was a lot of talk of this being the end of an era, while others pinned their hope on Avatar: The Way of Water bringing people back in droves. Here at B&B, we've always believed that the big screen is the best possible place to watch a movie, so we were delighted to be back in our local multiplex and indie venues. Here's our selection of the films that have really stayed with us throughout the year.
Kenneth Branagh's semi-autobiographical film was the first must-see of the year – an absolute joy, with a brilliant central performance from newcomer Jude Hill. This film is all about formative experiences, the kind that shape a young boy's future.
A new film from Guillermo del Toro is always cause for celebration. This bleak, dark tale is the work of a gifted director at the peak of his powers, handling a tricky subject with consummate skill.
Red Rocket
Director Sean Baker's ability to depict working-class life is his real strength and Red Rocket, powered by astonishing performances by Simon Rex and Suzanna Son, offers a brilliant exploration of Trump's America.
Joaquin Trier's film is a rare beauty, a picaresque tale of life and love in contemporary Oslo. It's built around a superb, award-winning performance by Renate Reinsve. A film that positively buzzes with invention.
Baz Luhrmann's biopic is a big, brash, noisy exploration of the late singer's life and times. Against all the odds, Austin Butler makes the role his own and Tom Hank's portrayal of the sleazy, manipulative Colonel Tom Parker is also right on the button.
Luca Guadadigno's visceral tale of love and cannibalism is a brilliant reinvention of a well-worn trope which can be seen as an allegory about drug addiction. It's brilliant stuff, but not for the faint-hearted – by turns romantic and repugnant.
This searing account of the uncovering of Harvey Weinstein's crimes by two Washington Post journalists is timely and superbly recreated, with excellent performances from Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan in the central roles.
Martin McDonagh's film is a beautifully observed contemplation of the thankless futility of human existence. This is his best offering since the sublime In Bruges, with wonderful performances from Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson.
A gorgeous film, sweetly sad and tinged with tragedy. Debut writer/director Charlotte Wells knocks it out of the park with her first feature, coaxing extraordinary performances from Paul Mescal and Frankie Corio. An absolute must-see.
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Not content with one title in our selection, del Toro has two – despite the fact that we had to watch Pinocchio on the small screen. Few films deserve the description 'masterpiece' as thoroughly as this one.
Philip Caveney & Susan Singfield
Posted in Film and tagged Aftersun, Austin Butler, Baz Luhrmann, Belfast, Bones and All, Bouquets and Brickbats, Brendan Gleeson, Carey Mulligan, Charlotte Wells, Colin Farrell, Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis, Elvis Presley, Frankie Corio, Guillermo del Toro, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, Harvey Weinstein, In Bruges, Joaquin Trier, Jude Hill, Kenneth Branagh, Luca Guadagnino, Martin McDonagh, Nightmare Alley, Paul Mescal, Red Rocket, Renate Reinsve, Sean Baker, She Said, Simon Rex, Suzanna Son, The Banshees of Inisherin, The Worst Person in the World, Tom Hanks, Zoe Kazan on December 28, 2022 by Bouquets & Brickbats. 1 Comment
Rian Johnson's Knives Out garnered plenty of admirers on its release in 2019, though I felt at the time that it was a case of style over substance. Call me old fashioned, but I'm of the opinion that one of the basic requirements of a whodunnit is that it should be hard to crack and, in this case, it really wasn't. The sequel (helpfully subtitled A Knives Out Mystery, just in case we've missed the connection) recently enjoyed a week in cinemas – at a time when we couldn't see it. It now appears on Netflix, who financed it and they will also be funding several further instalments. The reviews haven't been quite so ecstatic this time around, but perhaps ironically, I find this one an improvement on the original, mainly by virtue of the fact that I really can't guess where it's headed – though it should also be said that there is a glaring plot hole in there that should have been plugged. (See if you can spot it!)
Once again, this is very stylish, bright and kinetic. We're offered a selection of – mostly repellent – characters who feel more like caricatures than real people. We learn more about 'the world's greatest detective', Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig), who apparently is fond of sitting in his bath whilst wearing a fez (as you do) and who appears to share his home with a very famous housemate. It all begins with a bunch of seemingly unconnected individuals receiving invitations to an exclusive party on billionaire Miles Bron (Edward Norton)'s private Greek island.
The invites come in the form of elaborate puzzle boxes, which must be deciphered. Soon enough, Blanc is standing on the dockside with the other guests, who include hapless socialite Birdie Jay (Kate Hudson), muscle bound YouTuber, Duke Cody (Dave Bautista) and Bron's former business partner, Andi Brand (Janelle Monáe). It soon becomes clear that Blanc hasn't actually been invited to this bash, so his presence is only the first in a whole series of mysteries to be solved.The action is set in 2020, so hats off to Johnson for actually referencing the COVID pandemic, with the characters wearing masks and being all awkward about hugging and shaking hands, something that's barely ever been referenced in the cinema so far.
Once on the island and inside Bron's super luxurious home – the centrepiece of which resembles a huge er… glass onion – the host announces that they will all be playing an elaborate murder mystery game. At some point in the evening, he will be 'killed' and the guests will have to work out whodunnit…
So far, so Agatha Christie, but it should be said that nothing here goes according to anybody's plan and, while I feel the early stretches of Glass Onion take some sticking with, once we've reached the midpoint, a huge revelation in the form of a series of flashbacks makes everything much more interesting. From here, the proceedings become ever more unhinged, ever more labyrinthine, as Johnson throws aside the conventions of the genre and begins to have fun with proceedings. It's here too that his central tenet becomes clear. We're continually reminded that nothing is hidden, nothing is opaque and that the answers to every puzzle are right there in front of us.
It's clever but, once again, there's a sense of distance. Because I don't believe in any of these people, the result is like watching an expert game of chess, with the director manipulating the action like a grandmaster. I'm watching with a sense of detachment rather than being swept up in the proceedings.
Ultimately Glass Onion is an interesting exercise in legerdemain, and Netflix will doubtless do well with it. It will be interesting to see where the series of films goes from here but, for me at least, this feels like a step in the right direction.
Posted in Film and tagged Agatha Christie, Daniel Craig, Dave Bautista, Edward Norton, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Janelle Monáe, Kate Hudson, Knives Out, Netflix, Rian Johnson on December 24, 2022 by Bouquets & Brickbats. Leave a comment
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
It's late December and it's time for another panto from the King's Theatre…
Oh no it's not! Because of course, the Old Lady of Leven Street is closed, awaiting its much heralded refurbishment, so this time the regular crew have relocated to the Festival Theatre, a much bigger space, but one that they fill with their usual raucous aplomb. This year's panto is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which has a more complicated plot than most. Perhaps with this in mind, the set designer has usefully created a hi-tech 'magic mirror' which offers us a lengthy preamble to set the scene. Unfortunately, a bunch of latecomers troop across in front of me during this sequence, so I'm left to figure things out on that score.
As usual May (Allan Stewart) is the absolute star of the show (she's a Nurse this time around). Stewart has his persona fine-tuned to perfection, skipping around the stage in stilettos while offering perfectly-timed put-downs. Grant Stott eschews drag and plays it straight as the evil Lord Lucifer (the clue's in the name), currently trapped in the magic mirror and hoping to gain his release with the help of the wicked Queen Dragonella (Liz Ewing). Jordan Young returns as Muddles, and has his physical routines down to a T. Muddles, of course, is in love with the Princess Snow White (Francesca Ross), but she only has eyes for the handsome Prince Hamish (Brian James Leys). Meanwhile, Dragonella's daughter, Princess Lavinia (Clare Gray), is having second thoughts about being such a thoroughly bad egg…
Look, with these pantos, the plot hardly matters. They are really just an excuse to have a fun time, and it's clear from the exuberant reception as the curtain goes up that the audience has a lot of love for these seasoned performers and are ready to shout 'It's behind you!' and bellow their best boos every time Stott stalks onto the stage. There's the familiar check list of sure-fire comedy routines, some new additions (Stott's song about the Edinburgh trams goes down a storm), plenty of references both topical and regional and, naturally, there are seven talented (and brilliantly costumed) dwarfs – with Kyle Herd even doubling as Nicola Sturgeon for a dance routine.
I laugh, I clap, I cheer, I boo and I genuinely have a great time with this charming production. They've started somewhat later than usual, so those who want to grab a generous helping of Ho, Ho. Ho! should book early to avoid disappointment. The show's on until January 22nd, so come on, what are you waiting for? It's not Christmas without a good panto.
(And the first person to say "Oh yes it is" will be politely asked to leave.)
Posted in Comedy, Theatre and tagged Allan Stewart, Brian James Leys, Clare Gray, Festival Theatre, Francesca Ross, Grant Stott, Jordan Young, Kyle Herd, Liz Ewing, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on December 22, 2022 by Bouquets & Brickbats. 1 Comment
Writer/director Ruben Östlund clearly has an axe to grind with the rich and privileged. This film amounts to a pretty effective take-down of such people, skewering their pretensions and their innate sense of ownership. Most of the characters depicted are repellent in their own individual ways, so it's very much to Östlund's credit that he actually manages to make me care so much about what happens to them.
Carl (Harris Dickinson) is a male model, already suffering the indignities of casting agents muttering that he 'may need some botox' just three years after hitting it big in a series of fragrance ads. His ultra-manipulative girlfriend, Yaya (Charlbi Dean), is an influencer, unable to eat a meal without taking thirty shots of herself supposedly enjoying the food. The two maintain a prickly relationship.
Yaya has recently wangled an invitation for her and Carl to go on an ultra-luxurious ocean cruise, along with a collection of super-rich guests, including oligarch, Dimitri (Zlatko Buric), who's made his fortune from selling manure, and charming old couple, Winston (Oliver Ford Davies) and Clementine (Amanda Walker), who have become filthy rich from selling military grade weapons. 'Our hand grenades are very popular,' they tell Carl, proudly.
Urged on by head of staff, Paula (Vicki Berlin), the ship's crew do everything they can to fulfil their guests' every whim, no matter how demeaning, how utterly facile it might be. Meanwhile, Captain Thomas Smith (Woody Harrelson) skulks alone in his cabin, drinking too much alcohol and attempting to keep his distance from the passengers he clearly despises…
But a storm is coming and, when it coincides with the Captain's Dinner, it soon becomes apparent that this trip is going to be anything but plain sailing…
Like an Admirable Crichton for our time, Triangle of Sadness is full of delights, by turns excoriating, hilarious and insightful. At times it's also unpleasant – scenes where an ocean storm induces an outbreak of mass vomiting amongst the passengers are really not for the faint hearted. While the film admittedly loses a little momentum in its final third, when the action transfers to a desert island, it nonetheless still has plenty to say about the human condition, when former toilet cleaner, Abigail (Dolly Le Leon), spots an opportunity to take on the role of leader, by simple virtue of the fact that she's the only one capable of doing anything practical. Östlund seems to be pointing out that no matter how much we might hate the privileged, when offered the chance to step into their shoes, few of us are willing to pass it up. And to what lengths are we prepared to go to in order to cling onto it?
A late revelation leaves Abigail with a difficult decision on her hands and brings the film to a breathless conclusion. I've always hated the idea of going on an ocean cruise and Triangle of Sadness hasn't made me change my mind. But this film is well worth embarking on.
Posted in Film and tagged Amanda Walker, Amazon Prime Video, Charlbi Dean, Dolly Le Leon, Harris Dickinson, Oliver Ford Davies, Ruben Östlund, Triangle of Sadness, Vicki Berlin, Woody Harrelson, Zlatko Buric on December 19, 2022 by Bouquets & Brickbats. Leave a comment
Kora by Tom Kitchin
Bruntsfield Place, Edinburgh
We visited Kora a few days after it opened, back in July, and loved it. But then it was in its infancy, and Mr Kitchin was a friendly and visible presence. The perfect storm of Brexit, COVID and cost-of-living crisis means that restaurants are even more vulnerable than they were before, and he was clearly focused on giving this place a decent start. The question is, five months on, with a slightly longer menu and the restaurant staff given more autonomy, is Kora still delivering five star meals?
The answer is: yes. Yes, it is.
It's a welcoming place, with a cosy, informal vibe; the staff are warm without being overbearing, professional without being stuffy. The diners before us are running a little late, so we have to wait a while for our table, but we're happy enough to sit at the bar with some wine (a Chilean Sauvignon Blanc), perusing the menu. It's hard to pick from the delights on offer.
In the end, we both opt for the salmon starter. This comprises two thick slices of smoked salmon, served with a buckwheat galette, spinach, a perfectly poached egg and a buttery hollandaise sauce. It's mouthwateringly-wonderful: the thick orange yolk cascading over everything; the salmon robust yet still delicate. It's a great beginning!
My main course is the Sika deer: a venison pithivier with some medium rare roasted loin, both cooked to perfection. I'm worried before it arrives that it'll be too much, too rich, with all the pastry and red meat, but it's perfectly judged, so that I feel satisfied rather than bloated. This comes with celeriac, which, although not my favourite vegetable, is beautifully cooked, and complements the meat well. Perhaps it would be better to have something fresh and green to offset all that richness, but this is just a minor quibble.
Philip has the partridge, which comes en croute, with a roasted leg on the side, as well as some salsify. This is succulent, well-spiced and subtly flavoured, the pastry flaky and crisp. He declares it to be 'faultless' and relishes every mouthful.
Philip's pudding is chocolate, i.e. warm doughnut balls, a dark chocolate sauce, and Chantilly cream. It's one of those dishes that makes you say 'oooh' a lot; it feels indulgent and nostalgic in equal measure. My cinnamon is something of an eye-opener, so much more than its description gives away. A real contender for my 'Off Menu dream meal dessert', this consists of a cinnamon panna cotta, served with tart, crisp pieces of apple and an apple sorbet, with a small, warm cinnamon bun on the side. I just know I'll be ordering this again before too long.
We decline coffee, pay our bill, and head off into the cold, night air. Kora is only a ten minute walk from home; what a privilege to live so near a place as stellar as this.
Posted in Food and tagged Edinburgh, Kora by Tom Kitchin on December 18, 2022 by Bouquets & Brickbats. Leave a comment
Cineworld, Edinburgh
There's no denying the fact that, back in back in 2009, James Cameron's Avatar was an absolute game-changer. It demonstrated the possibilities of digital filmmaking, relaunched the idea of 3D cinema and, in terms of the box office, was one of the most successful films in history. Of course there would be a sequel. It was a no-brainer. But we could have no idea, back then, how long it was going to take…
Thirteen years later, here I am in my local multiplex, staring at a giant screen through a pair of 3D glasses. It must be said that Pandora looks even more ravishing than it did last time. The world-building is second to none, the action set pieces as explosive as ever… but in terms of story, not an awful lot has changed. Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) has learned to love the Na'vi body he now inhabits and he and his wife, Neytiri (Zoe Saldana), have acquired a family, mostly by traditional methods – though in the case of Kiri (Sigourney Weaver), through some scientific tinkering in a laboratory, taking genes from Grace Augustine's avatar. Together the extended family live an undemanding life in their exotic jungle home, even finding room for Spider (Jack Champion), the human son of Sully's old nemesis, Colonel Myles Quaritch.
But of course, happiness cannot last forever and all too soon, The Sky People (who sound disconcertingly like a 1980s dance troupe) return in force, landing their fleet of space craft with enough power to burn down hundreds of acres of forest. Among them is Quaritch (Stephen Lang), reanimated as a Na'vi version of his former self and assigned the role of hunting down Jake. After an initial skirmish with Quaritch and his crew, Jake realises that he is putting everyone in his tribe in danger, so the Sully family leave their familiar home and seek refuge among the people of the Metakayina Reef.
It's here of course that the major difference from the first film comes into play. This new tribe is an aquatic one and much of the ensuing action takes place in and under the ocean as the Sullys learn how to operate in an unfamiliar environment. And the film does look exquisite, every frame captured in photo realistic style, the various denizens of the ocean portrayed with all the veracity of a Blue Planet documentary. It is an extraordinary technical achievement and you see exactly where all those millions of dollars have been spent.
But… The Way of Water has a three-hour-twelve-minute running time and, consequently, no matter how stunning it looks, I'm all too aware that there really isn't enough story here to keep me fully engaged. Every set-piece seems to take forever to play out and, try as I might, I can't help thinking about the other three (or is is four?) movies that Cameron has waiting in the wings. The final scenes take place in a sinking ship and have more than a nod to Titanic about them. This feels somehow meta: Cameron harking back to another of his former triumphs, where he took on the nay-sayers and won?
I find myself simultaneously hoping and doubting that The Way of Water is the film that will encourage audiences back to the cinema en masse. There are about eight of us at the afternoon screening I attend, which isn't encouraging – but we'll have to wait to see how it all plays out. Increasingly, however, the Avatar franchise is in danger of becoming James Cameron's folly.
It's massive, it's impressive, but it's ultimately an empty vessel. Can he really hope to rekindle those former glories?
The jury is out.
Posted in Film and tagged Avatar: The Way of Water, Jack Champion, James Cameron, Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Titanic, Zoe Saldana on December 17, 2022 by Bouquets & Brickbats. Leave a comment
The Cameo, Edinburgh
Noah Baumbach's latest film – based on the 1985 novel by Dom Delillo – is mostly about death: humanity's fear of it, the inevitability of it and the final irrefutable truth that one day it comes to us all. If this makes White Noise sound about as much fun as a car crash at a funeral, don't be misled. It's a fascinating film, by turns absurdly funny, deeply puzzling and profoundly worrying. If, ultimately, it attempts to bite off a little more than it can chew, it's nonetheless an ambitious and bravely experimental slice of filmmaking.
We're somewhere in the American midwest where Jack Gladney (Adam Driver) is 'Professor of Hitler Studies' at the prestigious 'College on the Hill', where he's fond of waxing lyrical about the rise of the Nazis without, it seems, any inkling of how distressing a subject it actually is. He's also hiding the embarrassing fact that he can't speak a word of German. Jack enjoys an adversarial friendship with another lecturer, Murray Siskind (Don Cheadle), who specialises in two main subjects, Elvis and er… car crashes. A scene where the two men attempt to engage in a kind of intellectual battle of wits in front of a spellbound class is a particular highlight.
Jack lives with his wife, Babette (Greta Gerwig), and their extended family. Both have had previous marriages and the gaggle of kids who live with them are all better informed than either of their parents. The family lives in a bubble of domestic bliss, interspersed with regular trips to a gigantic, day-glo supermarket, which seems to hold for them the importance of a church. But not everything is quite as cosy as it seems. What are those pills that Babette is secretly taking? And why, when challenged, does she deny their very existence?
Matters take a dramatic turn for the worse when a freight train laden with dangerous chemicals collides with an articulated lorry, carrying something equally nasty. The result in an 'airborne toxic event' which sends clouds of deadly fumes into the sky. The Gladney family – and just about everybody else in the vicinity – vacate their home in a desperate attempt to escape. But what exactly are they fleeing from? And what's the prognosis if you're exposed to those 'deadly' clouds? Nobody seems to know.
White Noise offers as many questions as it does answers. If not everything we're offered here quite comes off, much of it works brilliantly. Baumbach's vision of suburban America is packed full of surprises, from doctors who clearly don't care about the welfare of their patients to a Mother Superior who rubbishes the idea of heaven and angels. There are perfectly judged performances from Driver and Gerwig (particularly the latter who plays her role as if in a permanent drug daze) and Lol Crawley's cinematography gives everything an unearthly sheen.
In the film's final third, Jack finds himself driven to seek out the person responsible for Babette's addiction, but even that doesn't follow the lines you'd generally expect to encounter in such a narrative. It's here that the film begins to feel a little too unhinged, though the enterprise is rescued by a delightful end-credit sequence.
It's an ingenious device that keeps me glued to my seat until the screen finally fades to black.
3. 8 stars
Posted in Uncategorized and tagged Adam Driver, Dom deLillo, Don Cheadle, Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach, The Cameo Cinema, White Noise on December 14, 2022 by Bouquets & Brickbats. Leave a comment
The real-life silent twins of the title are Jennifer and June Gibbons, born in 1963, who refused – for years – to speak to anyone but each other. No one really knows why, but there are myriad theories: they were outsiders – the only Black kids in their small Welsh town; they were bullied; one was controlling the other – or, more crudely, they were 'disturbed'.
Certainly 'disturbed' was the verdict of a baffled legal system, which over-reacted to the girls' teenage crimes of petty theft and arson, and sent them to Broadmoor high security mental health hospital – a place more commonly associated with hardened murderers than wayward kids. How did they get through the eleven long years they spent there?
Director Agnieszka Smoczynska shows us how: by retreating into their rich inner lives. In this illuminating biopic, adapted by Andrea Seigel from the book by journalist Marjorie Wallace (played here by Jodhi May), we see that Jenny and June are far from mute and far from short of things to say. They just have a different way of expressing themselves. In reality, their so-called 'secret language' was a mixture of Bajan slang and super-fast English, which they used to tell stories to each other; here, their tales are depicted as distinctive animations. The girls are writers, producing countless reams of short stories, poems, even novels, spending their meagre benefits on foolscap, typewriter ink and – eventually – vanity publishing. They refuse to engage with their seemingly lovely family, rejecting any offers of help. Sent to separate schools for kids with special educational needs, they both become further withdrawn, refusing to move or eat, let alone speak. They're driven by their art: once school is behind them, they realise they need to interact with the outside world – how can they write about romance if they've never experienced it? But romance is in short supply in their dalliances with the odious Wayne (Jack Bandeira)…
If only all biopics were as imaginative, engaging and sensitive as this! | 7,270 |
Like 'Mummy on the Orient Express', also by new Who writer Jamie Mathieson, 'Flatline' reminded me in various respects of other<|fim_middle|> of adventure that can best be described as a 'romp'.
After the previous week's relatively low-key episode, this series of Doctor Who returned to top form with the best adventure yet for the Twelfth Doctor.
One of the pleasures of Doctor Who has always been the range of different types of stories and narrative templates that its ever-flexible formula allows.
The start of a new season of Doctor Who always carries a weight of expectation, especially so when it also heralds the debut of a new Doctor.
Perhaps the ultimate tribute that can be paid to Doctor Who on its 50th birthday is all the activities and friends that have been made through being fans.
As we continue our chats with our Who Watching authors, Kevin S. Decker hopes the programme returns to emphasising the writing and acting of individual episodes, focusing less on story arcs. | Doctor Who stories.
Following last week's 'Big Issue' drama, this was Doctor Who returning to a lighter mode in the sort | 26 |
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jQuery plugin to extend the functionality of semantic-ui's 1.x form module to get an retrieve data from the form, auto-generate entire forms and modal<|fim_middle|>The BSD License
| forms, and to extend support for other types of data, like date pickers for Date.
Each form is an object consisting of multiple fields as specified below, keyed off of the model's field name.
* **identifier**: The field's id
* **rules**: An array of rules with objects that pair together a named rule and a prompt
* **type**: integer, decimal, bool, date, datetime, time, email, url, string, text, choices (or any other custom type to match a template e.g. color)
* **choices**: if the type is choices, the choices mapping values to display names will be here
* **label**: the field's label
* **icon**: the icon to put into the field
* **placeholder**: will be the same as label if not specified
* **help**: text that will appear under the field
* **defaultValue**: the initial value to set
* **required**: this isn't a setting, but a field will be considered required if the empty rule is set
FormData Plugin Methods
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Accessible by the general form $('.foo').formData('behavior name', rules, data, identifier)
#### Behavior Names:
* **'render'**, *fieldRules, data* - renders the field into html or a DOM node, using a template or render callback method matching the type of the field
* **'set'**, *rules, data* - set the values of the form fields with data from a model.
* **'setup'**, *rules* - same as set with no data, to get the fields initialized
* **'get'**, *rules, data* - get the values of all the form fields with their backbone field names appropriately encoded, will parse integers, decimals, and bools
* **'modal'**, *rules, data, settings* - constructs and runs a modal that automatically sets and gets the data. *Settings must have a title variable set, and an onSuccess method for accepting the data when submitted and the modal is closed. Other settings include form, for settings form settings, modal for modal settings, submitButton for the text on the submit button, and subtitle for a subtitle on the modal header. Modal will only render for pure semantic forms and not with custom rendering that returns DOM nodes.*
FormData Callbacks
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Configurable under the objects `$.fn.formData.callbacks.{render, set, get}`
* **render.\[type\]**, *fieldRules* - return html or a DOM node to use as the field
* **set.\[type\]**, *fieldRules, $element, value* - set the value and optionally configure a field, return an optional javascript object (e.g. Pikaday object) to later be used in the get.\[type\] callback
* **get.\[type\]**, *fieldRules, $element, javascript object* - functionality to return the value directly instead of the get method. Return a Date object and it will be automatically converted to a iso 8601 string
If no get callback is specified for a type, the value will be assumed to already be in the correct text format.
Semantic UI Form - Additional Rules
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As added to $.fn.form.settings.rules
* **'min'**, *value, minValue* - make sure the value is a numerical value no less than minValue
* **'max'**, *value, maxValue* - make sure the value is a numerical value no greater than maxValue
* **'regex'**, *value, pattern* - make sure the value matches the regex pattern
* **'integer'**, *value* - make sure that the value is an integer
* **'decimal'**, *value* - make sure the value is a decimal
* **'past'**, *value* - make sure the value (Date) is in the past
* **'future'**, *value* - make sure the value (Date) is in the future
* **'order'**, *value, identifiers* - make sure the values (Dates) are in order
The url and email rules which don't allow blank values are fixed to allow blank values, use empty instead to check required fields
#### Settings
* `$.formData.settings.noEmptyFix = true` to disable the empty email and url rule fix. Default is false
* `$.fn.formData.settings.noISODates = true` to disable the auto ISO 8601 decoding/encoding of input/output dates, times, and datetimes. Default is false
* `$.fn.formData.settings.timezoneOffset = 3600` if set, the timezone the user is operating in, which could be different from the browser's timezone offset to adjust getting and settings data. Specified in minutes. Default is 0 for no adjustment.
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I have just been reading about a new service from Empirix called "Testing as a Service". As the name suggests its a testing service, but more specifically it's a Quality Assurance (QA) solution for contact centers (I think these are what the good old call centre used to be) installing new plaforms or upgrading/refreshing existing technology.
The Empirix Testing as a Service, is scalable: it allows contact centres of all sizes (even to large contact centers) to determine the quality of the customer experience as well as the overall performance to ensure the ROI for a contact center. The testing service is highly adaptable and covers the complete contact center infrastructure.
Testing as a Service uses Empirix's Hammer Test Engine., for both in and out-of-service testing and in-service monitoring basis. There is also a secure, real time reporting function to monitor the testing activities of Empirix's Testing as a Service.
The Center of Excellence (which, as we have noted in the past, has now replaced Centre of Excellence) is a concept which has been around for some time. It has gone in and out of favour as organisations have changed and adapted to different approaches for building and delivery IT.
There is also the HP appliction security center. And Paladion have announced that they have built an Application Security Testing Centre of Excellence around this HP tool, in India. It combines an IT infrastructure with experienced security testers and best practices in using HP application security center. Its purpose it to locate and fix security vulnerabilities in computer software applications throughout the full<|fim_middle|> a longer project which involves what amounts to installing a new network. The Universal Service Commitment and the Next Generation Final Third project are separate projects and need to be addressed in turn."
Advanced workflow support, which allows the you to configure business rules with the Software Planner SDLC testing tool, to define and manage the status and transition of data items. The example given with the new release is creating new defects: you may want to automatically assign a status of New and set mandatory requirements for some attributes (such as name and description) when a defect is raised. Once the defect has been assigned the status would change, progressing ideally to Resolved with the tool configured to require data items such as a resolution description are input before it can be closed.
The new release of Software Planner is integrated with Microsoft Visual Source Safe. Defects can be associated with the source code that was fixed due to the defect. This allows you to determine what source code models are affected by specific types of defects, making analysis of code impact easier to understand.
More robust reporting, including many new defect, test case, functional specification and project management reports. The newer reports allow trending of defects, test cases and functional specifications over time, allowing teams to spot trends and determine if the quality of their software is improving as the project progresses towards production. Software Planner has also been integrated with Business Objects Crystal Reports, so you can create your own reports and post them into Software Planner for others to use. You can also import reports from other SQL based databases (like Oracle, SQL Server, etc), allowing Software Planner to double as a full reporting solution for all areas of your business.
I read an article about governance and silos which I found interesting. The analyst was of the view that organisations were recreating new silos of governance rather than applying successful governance styles that are already proven.
"Well, SOA, for instance. If you look at an SOA project, it's often defined by an elite group of architects and developers who are benefiting from all the lessons of 20 years of iterative development and they then develop their own processes, almost in this little vacuum.
Theoretically, a lot of organisations really have a lack of governance in their software development processes, but even if there is a lack of governance, there is some governance there. With the SOA lifecycle, we've actually spent a great deal of energy defining the stages of it and while they're parallel to what should be the SDLC - the software development lifecycle - very often they're instituted by a separate group and it's kind of like parallel lives. So, in effect, we're creating an additional layer of governance. Just what we need when IT organisations are trying to simplify lives for themselves." | Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
Microsoft have released a draft version of a guide on Acceptance Testing. As well as covering the testing aspects of the acceptance process it covers the collection of data in order to making a decision during the acceptance activities. It also covers preparation for acceptance testing and the approaches to acceptance testing: specifically whether you do it in a separate stage (an acecptance testing phase) or throughout the full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). The latter they call Incremental Acceptance Testing.
You can download a copy of the Acceptance Test Engineering Guide and provide feedback on the same website in the discussion forum.
If you want to see the reviews, you can visit the site. Or better still get the book and make up your own mind.
Digital Britian aims to connect all of Britian so that everyone can have access to 2Mbs Broadband by 2012. Its a long report at over 200 pages. So rather than try to read it all you could just go for a summary like this one which is called a tea-break guide to this planned revolution in Telecoms.
"Work is well under way to create a PSN to supersede the overlapping and duplicative patchwork quilt or departmental or sectoral networks."
"Availability of broadband has two components: the right network today and the right network tomorrow. To ensure all can access and benefit from the network of today, we confirm our intention to deliver the Universal Service Broadband Commitment at 2Mbps by 2012. This can be delivered through upgrades to the existing copper and wireless networks. We also propose public support for the network of tomorrow so that consumers in the Final Third who will not be reached by the market can enjoy next generation broadband. This will be | 361 |
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As a founding member of both IIIrd Tyme Out and Doyle Lawson's Quicksilver, and as an occasional touring member of Seldom Scene, mandolinist Lou Reid learned a lot about blending bluegrass tradition with edgier contemporary arrangements. Those lessons are applied with engaging<|fim_middle|> on Monroe, when I was just knee-high," Reid sings. "When Ralph Stanley sings 'Rank Stranger,' I break right down and cry." Britt's crystal-clear tones, lightly colored by her dusky lower register, shine most poignantly on the bittersweet Jim Rushing/Keith Sewell lament "Memories Don't Die" (RealAudio excerpt).
Though this album breaks no new ground, its performances and song selection are first-rate. | style to the songs on Blue Heartache, Reid's fourth release with his band, Carolina.
The signature element of Lou Reid & Carolina's sound is tightly layered four-part harmonies hopscotching over one another, with sprightly rhythms cleanly picked by Reid, banjoist Gena Britt, guitarist Brian Stephens and acoustic bassist Jeff Deaton (son of IIIrd Tyme Out's Ray Deaton). The ensemble shines on songs such as the Birchfield/Osborne traditional "Take This Hammer" and Paul Craft's swinging title track.
Reid's robust lead vocals soar over his bandmates on Bill Monroe's "Letter From My Darlin' " (RealAudio excerpt) and Glenn Sutton's apropos "Grass Lover" (RealAudio excerpt). "I cut my teeth | 159 |
What is Due Process? Why Do We Need it?
By Renee Harding
Under IDEA (2004), due process is a formal set of procedures for resolving conflicts between the school (or district) and parents (or the equivalent, as recognized by IDEA) regarding the child's rights to special education related to "identification, evaluation, or educational placement". In other words, due process ensures that children with disabilities and their parents are guaranteed rights to conflict resolution regarding the provision of a free appropriate public education (FAPE) (20 U.S.C. §§ 1414-1415). Due process is one of the most powerful ways to resolve a dispute with a school about a child's education. Because the process is complicated, a parent may want to speak to an education advocate or lawyer if considering it. By understanding your legal rights, you can decide whether this is an option you want to pursue. It is important to note that due process protects both parties in conflicts that may arise.
For a parent, due process includes the right to participate in all meetings, to examine all educational records, and to obtain an independent educational evaluation (IEE) of the child. Written notice is required when the school proposes to change or refuses to change the identification, evaluation, or placement of the child. The school, Local Education Agency, or State Education Agency must seek to obtain informed parental consent for initial evaluation (20 U.S.C. § 1414), when possible. In cases where the parent refuses to consent to evaluation, the agency seeking evaluation may file due process against the parent, unless the parent refuses consent for special education services.
Each stage of due process has specific time limits. The parent must file a due process complaint within two years of learning about the school's action. The school must hold a resolution session with the parent within 15 calendar days of receiving the due process complaint. A 30-day period for reaching a resolution agreement follows. If no resolution agreement is made within that 30 days, the state department of education has 45 days to make sure there is a due process hearing and decision. The parent has <|fim_middle|> does not provide consent. If, during evaluation, the evaluator determines that the child may need additional testing, the school may request permission for additional testing. If the parent disagrees and refuses to consent, mediation should be the first step. Due process should be the last step. It is expensive, time consuming, emotionally draining for parents and the children involved, and most importantly, while the due process proceeds, the child is delayed from receiving services, assuming the child qualifies. | 90 days from the due process decision to file a lawsuit in state or federal court. (Exceptions apply state-to-state.)
The parent needs to send the complaint to the school and to the state department of education. If an issue is not stated in the complaint, it cannot be raised at the hearing. Evidence and witnesses may be presented at the due process hearing. The party filing due process has the right to hire a lawyer and other experts, to present evidence and have witnesses attend and testify, to confront and cross-examine the school's witnesses, to a free written verbatim recording of the hearing, to free written findings of fact and decision from the hearing officer, have the child present, and to have the hearing open to the public. The defending party has the same rights.
According to IDEA, the hearing officer that decides the case must be "impartial." The officer can't be an employee of the school or have a conflict of interest favoring either side. The officer must also have the knowledge and ability to conduct a hearing.
At least five business days before the hearing, the school and parent must disclose all evaluations and evidence that will be presented at the hearing. These disclosures ensure that both sides have a fair chance to respond to the other. If the parent or the school fail to disclose something five days before, the hearing officer can stop that evidence from being used at the hearing. After both sides present evidence and witnesses, the hearing officer makes a decision.
If the parent wins the due process hearing with the help of a lawyer, the school may have to pay for "reasonable" attorney fees, according to IDEA. In some states, the hearing officer can award fees. In other states a lawsuit must be filed in a court to get attorney fees from the school.
If the school wins, it can seek to have the parent pay for its lawyers. A court will make the parent pay lawyer fees for frivolous or cases intended to harass or delay. The parent can challenge a hearing decision after a loss. This process is the same for schools.
If the hearing officer decides against the parent, the parent has the right to challenge the decision. In some states, the parent can start a lawsuit in state or federal court. In other states, the parent must first appeal to the state department of education before filing a lawsuit.
The school may file due process against the parent during the initial evaluation when the parent | 484 |
I have a goose that herds<|fim_middle|> baby pen. There's also a white Chinese gosling in with the Cayugas, so maybe Nanny will eventually have one goosy friend too. | ducks. We call him Nanny. He is an African gander who came into our flock as an adult and never really fit in with our other geese. Earlier this spring our mallard duck hatched 14 babies and then disappeared about a week later. Nanny started staying next to their baby pen then. 2 of the babies died soon after their mother disappeared, and we sold 6 of the babies, so Nanny has 6 left. The babies are now fully feathered and out of the baby pen, free-ranging with our other birds. Nanny lets them spend some time during the day on their own, but he still herds them to the pool, takes them grazing in the pasture, etc. He still hisses at anyone who approaches his babies. And now that the mallards don't need him as much, he is starting to get very interested in the Cayuga ducklings in the current | 188 |
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Carl Agee finds ways to get his hands on samples of Earth's hellish interior and the exotic surfaces of other worlds.
There is something special about touch. It is the truth teller that proves the other senses: A bench bearing a "wet paint" sign is not truly wet until we have tapped it with a probing finger. Conversely, an air of unreality hangs over anything we cannot touch. A scientist studying the geology of distant planets and long-ago times, then, seems condemned to live in a perpetual bubble of abstraction.
A conversation with Carl Agee quickly sets me straight. His title is director of the Institute of Meteoritics at the University of New Mexico, but he might be better described as a man who touches the untouchable.
Agee daily re-creates conditions deep inside Earth, explores geologic events from billions of years ago and probes the chemical secrets of other planets. Recently, he made headlines with his study of a triangular, 11-ounce rock nicknamed Black Beauty.
"At first no one knew what it was exactly," Agee says. "It just looked so different from anything I had ever seen." His laboratory analysis, published earlier this year in the journal Science, proved it is actually a meteorite that originated on Mars and, intriguingly, comes from a location that was abundant with water.
Black Beauty offers a snapshot of a time when Mars was much more Earth-like. It also complements the surveys under way on the Red Planet by NASA's Curiosity rover. But while that $2 billion robot was creeping across the landscape, laboriously performing its onboard tests and radioing hints about Mars' geology<|fim_middle|> other Mars meteorites had originated from the dry parts of the planet. In contrast, NASA deliberately sent its rovers to places that looked like they were once wet. With Black Beauty, scientists on Earth finally had a sample that matched the potentially life-friendly locations that the rovers were exploring.
At last, the pieces of Black Beauty's story began to fall into place. Radioactive dating indicated that the meteorite is 2.1 billion years old, placing its origin in the middle of a little-understood stage of Martian geologic history known as the Amazonian.
"It's a period when Mars was probably transforming from a wet, warm place — perhaps a harbor for life — to what we see now: a dry, cold, inhospitable environment, not good for life," Agee says. He interprets Black Beauty as a volcanic rock that got exposed to a lot of water on the way up to the Martian surface. Perhaps it erupted through groundwater, or perhaps it was part of a geothermal system.
"We don't know what the state of the water was. We just know that there was plenty of it, and that's very exciting," Agee says.
5 million years — Agee can tell by the traces of cosmic radiation etched into the rock — until it fell to Earth, and ultimately into Agee's lab.
To Horton Newsom, a co-investigator on the Curiosity rover and Agee's colleague at the University of New Mexico, having access to a water-rich Mars rock here on Earth is a revelation. "This sample is big enough to study with a wide range of laboratory techniques that really expand our knowledge of the surface of Mars," he says.
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Where is the Most Fascinating Geology in the Solar System? | back to Earth, Agee unleashed the full power of his lab's instrumentation on Black Beauty.
And holding a piece of the Red Planet right there in his hand.
When he was a student at Columbia University in the 1980s, Agee already knew he wanted to take a tactile approach to studying how planets form and evolve. His first approach was to create otherworldly conditions right in his lab.
"I was doing high-pressure studies, using new techniques able to access pressures and temperatures that had previously not been available," Agee says. Those techniques would allow him to simulate the conditions deep inside the solar system's planets as they began forming about 4.6 billion years ago.
For two decades, Agee dispatched a variety of elaborate presses and heating mechanisms to crush samples at pressures up to 3.5 million pounds per square inch and temperatures approaching 4,500 degrees. The size of the specimens he worked with might seem minuscule to an outsider — about 1 cubic millimeter, comparable in size to a coarse grain of sand — but to Agee, such a speck is a world in miniature.
"It's big enough that it melts; you can form hundreds of crystals," he says.
Agee's process was straightforward. Open the press, and put in a sample comparable to the raw materials that formed Earth. Apply the kinds of temperatures and pressures that would have prevailed inside the growing planet. Then sit back and see what happens. Which elements stick together and which ones go their separate ways? What sinks and what floats?
What rose to the top represented Earth's crust. We live on the crust and know its composition exactly, so Agee could keep adjusting his experiment until it exactly matched reality. Then whatever remained represented the other, sunken portion, and Agee could finally hold a tiny piece of the deep interior of the Earth.
Carl Agee holds the mysterious Martian meteorite Black Beauty.
Agee found strong experimental support for a theory that the infant Earth completely melted to a depth of hundreds of miles, allowing heavy metals to separate rapidly from lighter rocky materials — like oil fleeing from water.
Despite these impressive successes, Agee's interests began to drift to meteorites — another youthful passion — when he was named the director of the Institute of Meteoritics in 2002. The agency was founded in 1944 as a meteorite collection, but by the time Agee took over, it had evolved into a research collection dedicated to studying space from the ground.
That work brought Agee in contact with all sorts of exotic objects, including meteorites that apparently originated from the moon and Mars. But nothing prepared him for Black Beauty or, as it was originally cataloged, NWA 7034.
Like so many meteorites that came to Agee's attention, this one racked up a lot of miles first. It was found by a nomadic meteorite hunter in Morocco (hence "NWA," for Northwest Africa) who sold it to a local dealer, who sold it to a major collector named Jay Piatek, who finally donated it to the institute.
NWA 7034 didn't fit into any category, however. Agee grew so frustrated that he set it aside for a month, then tried again. This time he cut into it with a diamond saw and began analyzing it from the inside. He was still puzzled by the result. "It was suggestive of Mars, but it wasn't like any other Martian meteorite," he says. Strangest of all, it was full of water — 10 times as much as any other known piece of the Red Planet. That oddity ultimately proved to be the key clue.
Black Beauty did not match up with the other Mars meteorites, Agee realized, but it did closely resemble something else: the rock and soil samples analyzed by NASA's Spirit rover at Gusev Crater on Mars, where the minerals show clear evidence that water was once present.
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Film Tomboy
Films on the Green Presents Tomboy
Part of Films on the Green 2019
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Directed by Céline Sciamma, 2011, 1h22, France (Courtesy of Institut français)
With Zoé Héran, Mathieu Demy, Sophie Cattani, Jean<|fim_middle|>5 00:00:00 UTC Films on the Green Presents Tomboy
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Laure (Héran) is a ten-year-old girl whose family just moved to the suburbs during the summer holiday. When mistaken for a boy by a pack of neighborhood kids, Laure creates an alter ego named 'Michael' and becomes resourceful in hiding her female identity from the other children. Soon, Michael catches the attention of Lisa (Disson), the leader of the pack who becomes completely smitten with the new boy in town. The hope for an endless summer of fun and friends will be questioned by the reality that is Laure's true self.
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FILMS ON THE GREEN FESTIVAL
The 2019 Films on the Green lineup focuses on female directors in French and Francophone cinema through a selection of 13 movies. This 12th edition pays tribute to "Women Behind the Camera" in honor of Agnès Varda, feminist filmmaker and pioneer of the French New Wave, who passed away earlier this year.
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Martin Greenfield Cloth<|fim_middle|> Corporation. | iers, Ltd. is a Brooklyn manufacturer of hand tailored men's clothing. The Company was founded in 1977 by Martin Greenfield when he bought the factory from his former employer, GGG Clothes. Mr. Greenfield had joined GGG in 1947 as an entry-level floor boy, ultimately rising to Vice President of Production before buying out his former employer.
Initially structured as a traditional manufacturer; currently, Martin Greenfield Clothiers is focused on a hybrid approach. They construct garments to meet the requirements of innovative designers, specialty retailers, costume designers, stylists and individuals. They hand craft the finest made-to-order as well as made-to-measure suits, tuxedoes, sport jackets, slacks, and overcoats 100% built by hand in our 1917 Brooklyn Factory.
Martin's sons Jay and Tod Greenfield joined their father in the 1980s and the trio currently manages the Company. They keep the focus on production, not promotion, creating garments with built in intrinsic value. Martin Greenfield Clothiers continues to operate as a union shop out of its 1917 location in Brooklyn. Believing in fostering strong ties to the surrounding community, Mr. Greenfield was instrumental in founding the East Williamsburg Valley Industrial Development | 266 |
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The French patter is a beautiful design that breaks up the grid appearance of one-sized tiles if ou are looking for something different. It is made up of several sized tiles that come in what are referred to as "bundles". A bundle consists of (four) 8-inch by 8-inch, (two) 8-inch by 16-inch, | 136 |
EFF Calls on Federal Regulators to Protect Consumers from DRM
DRM Technologies Impede Innovation and Thwart Consumers' Rights
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) called on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today to mitigate the damage that digital rights management (DRM) technologies cause consumers.
In public comments submitted to the FTC today, EFF explained how DRM, backed by the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), impedes innovation and thwarts consumers' rights to make full use of their digital music, movies, software, and videogames. EFF urged the commission to study DRM's effect on competition in the marketplace, investigate whether the effects of DRM are fully disclosed to consumers, and promote a set of "Best Practices" that, if followed, would help alleviate the burdens of DRM for consumers.
Industry leaders argue that DRM is necessary to protect sales of digital media, but DRM systems<|fim_middle|> you, millions of us who...
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With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Platforms Want To Be Utilities, Self-Govern Like Empires
Whether it's "bringing the world closer together" (Facebook), "organizing the world's information" (Google), to be a market "where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online" (Amazon) or "to make personal computing accessible to each and every individual" (Apple), the founding missions of tech giants reveal...
Deeplinks Blog by Elliot Harmon, Cara Gagliano | November 24, 2020
Let's Stand Up for Home Hacking and Repair
Let's tell the Copyright Office that it's not a crime to modify or repair your own devices.Every three years, the Copyright Office holds a rulemaking process where it grants the public permission to bypass digital locks for lawful purposes. In 2018, the Office expanded existing protections for jailbreaking...
Deeplinks Blog by Elliot Harmon, Mitch Stoltz | November 17, 2020
GitHub Reinstates youtube-dl After RIAA's Abuse of the DMCA
GitHub recently reinstated the repository for youtube-dl, a popular free software tool for downloading videos from YouTube and other user-uploaded video platforms. GitHub had taken down the repository last month after the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) abused the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's notice-and-takedown procedure to pressure... | are consistently and routinely broken almost immediately upon their introduction.
"DRM does not prevent piracy," said EFF Staff Attorney Corynne McSherry. "At this point, DRM seems intended to accomplish a very different purpose: giving some industry leaders unprecedented power to influence the pace and nature of innovation and upsetting the traditional balance between the interests of copyright owners and the interests of the public. The best way to fix the problem is to get rid of DRM on consumer products and reform the DMCA, but the steps we're suggesting will help protect technology users and future technology innovation in the meantime."
EFF's comments were filed in conjunction with the FTC's Town Hall on DRM, set for March 25 in Seattle. The Town Hall is free and open to the public.
For EFF's full comments to the FTC:
http://www.eff.org/files/filenode/DRM/DRMCOMMENTS_final.pdf
For more on the FTC Town Hall on DRM:
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2008/12/drm.shtm
Corynne McSherry
Staff Attorney
corynne@eff.org
Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | June 7, 2022
When DRM Comes For Your Wheelchair
Making it easier for people who use powered wheelchairs to get them fixed won't solve all the other problems with powered wheelchairs: it won't solve the problem of being forced to use indoor chairs outdoors; it won't solve the problem of a market concentrated into the hands of two companies...
Deeplinks Blog by Kit Walsh | May 11, 2022
EFF to Court: Fair Use is a Right Congress Cannot Cast Aside
Copyright law and free expression have always been in tension, with the courts protecting speech from overzealous copyright claims using legal doctrines such as fair use. But in 1998, Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and since then courts have interpreted its "anti-circumvention" provision to give rightsholders the unprecedented...
Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | February 15, 2022
The Worst Timeline: A Printer Company Is Putting DRM in Paper Now
Lacking ink, the label-printing market has been spared the kinds of shenanigans that plague the world of inkjets…until now.
Deeplinks Blog by Karen Gullo | February 9, 2022
Robots Have No Place Filtering Creative Content, EFF Tells U.S. Copyright Office
Software robots should not be deciding whether your creative content, whether written words, videos, photos, or music, ought to be pulled off the internet.That's what we told the U.S. Copyright office in comments we filed February 8 arguing against requiring service providers to embrace "standard technical measures" to address...
Press Release | January 13, 2022
EFF Asks Appeals Court to Rule DMCA Anti-Circumvention Provisions Violate First Amendment
Washington D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asked a federal appeals court to block enforcement of onerous copyright rules that violate the First Amendment and criminalize certain speech about technology, preventing researchers, tech innovators, filmmakers, educators, and others from creating and sharing their work.EFF, with co-counsel Wilson Sonsini Goodrich &...
Deeplinks Blog by Rory Mir | October 28, 2021
Inequitable Access: An Anti-Competitive Scheme by Textbook Publishers
Update: An earlier version of this post described the UC Davis 'Equitable Access' program as it was implemented in Fall 2020. We have updated this post to clarify the changes made to the program in August 2021.It goes by many names, but no matter how you cut it, the new...
Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | August 31, 2021
Starve the Beast: Monopoly Power and Political Corruption
Docket of the Living DeadIn 2017, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai - a former Verizon lawyer appointed by Donald Trump - announced his intention to dismantle the Commission's hard-won 2015 Network Neutrality regulation. The 2015 order owed its existence to people like | 895 |
One of the criticisms, which I prefer to see as improvement opportunities, is that we don't really list the practical projects that we plan or complete. It is a fair point. Largely this is because there are a zillion how to youtube videos and websites out there, but too few people seem to be interested in putting this wonderful information into action. Our response was to build this site around what and why of simple living rather than the how. To my way of thinking once you have the idea you can always find out how to put it into practice.
Still here are a few of the practical projects that I have on the go at the moment.
Building a small park bench seat with and for my small son.
Starting up a community food swap co-operative where all of our neighbours come together to swap and trade produce, jams sauces and so on. My sister set one up and I really like how it has bought her area together.
Building a new transport mountain bike. I will buy the frame new. A good frame can last 25 years. All the rest of the components I intend to acquire through trades, second hand or by volunteering at a local bike shop and a local green bikes project (building second hand free/very cheap bikes for transport disadvantaged people).
Starting up our new business. More details on this later.
Building two new garden planter boxes and renewing one retaining wall that holds up<|fim_middle|> (including the main walk in accessway).
Repainting one weather affected area of our cabin. It needs a good scrape and sand first. Hopefully I'll have the help of my father for the painting bit. Over the years we've had some really great talks and good bonding while doing stuff like this together.
Building a new patio gate with roller wheels to lock a toddler in patio prison and avoid having to recover him from a forest hiding place.
Reinvigorating our community beer project. Last year we made a few batches of neighbourhood ale. I firmly believe good ale is compost for the soul and ours was no exception. Everyone involved loved it.The making, the drinking and the comradery, but then we all got busy. I also did a wee social experiment to see if someone else would kickstart it again, but they haven't so I will.
That is it for Jan/Feb for me. I know Ms Simple has quite a few things on the go including raising seedlings for sale, endless sowing projects (I can't keep track – seriously), orchard improvements and harvesting our current crops of berries and stone fruit for eating and for jam's, chutney's and sauces. In between she's planning to stain the portico floor and make new skirting boards and a door jam. All while keeping an eye on two juveniles (me and the boy).
There is no end to what you can achieve if you turn off the electronic reproduction of life and go outside instead. | half of our land | 4 |
H<|fim_middle|> lot of greenery," she explained of her technique, which she applies to wedding and event design in the Hudson Valley and New York City. | udson Florists. Hudson FL flower shops.
Martin E. Klimek, USA TODAYDiana Mae Flowers emphasizes natural beauty and minimal fuss.(Photo: Courtesy photo)After a snowflake-laden winter, spring fever is spreading in the Hudson Valley. No one knows this better than the valley's talented florists. As soon as the last of the snow melts away, they venture into gardens and greenhouses to collect the requisite bits and bobs. After all, there is no time like springtime to introduce a bit of plant life into the home.Whether they bundle fresh flowers for the office or design an artful arrangement for the dining room table, these flower experts have all the tips and tricks to help inject greenery into a post-winter household.GARDENING: Heirloom seeds preserve taste of the pastThe Naturalista"I like to go foraging and find natural things that inspire me," said Nancy Lee, owner of Petals & Moss Floral Design in Red Hook.Petals & Moss favors organic arrangements with crisp florals. (Photo: Courtesy photo)She has been crafting arrangements professionally for the last 2 ½ years, although she has been a horticulturist for a quarter century. "I like to use minimal amounts of flowers and a | 258 |
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Megumi's solo violin programme:
Georg Philipp Telemann – Fantasia No.4 in D major
Eugène Ysaÿe – Sonata No.1 in G minor Op.27
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber – Passacaglia from Rosary Sonata No.16 'The Guardian Angel'
Johann Sebastian Bach – Partita No.2 in D minor, BWV 1004
Born in Japan, Megumi has performed in the Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall, the Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace (in the presence of HRH the Prince of Wales), Gstaad Palace in Switzerland, Holt Fringe Festival, Chelten<|fim_middle|> And she regularly gives concerts in aid of various charities, including for the development of a nutrition centre in Turkana, Kenya.
Megumi is violinist on the recording of 'Light' by the composer Robert Power.
She is also working with the composer David Hackbridge Johnson and premiered his Solo Sonata No.3, and also No.4, which is dedicated to her. She has recently recorded his solo violin works.
Megumi plays a beautiful Italian violin made by Antonio Testore 1740. She is very grateful for the generous support given by Florian Leonhard Fine Violins, Sir Peter and Lady Walters, and the Philharmonia Orchestra Martin Musical Scholarship Fund.
Meet the Performer
An exciting innovation is the opportunity to meet Megumi during a light supper after the concert. After supper, Megumi will be interviewed by Phil Barrett and answer questions from the floor. Tickets for the supper are available from Catherine Hume – booking@start-holt.org.uk – for £15 per person.
Any enquiries please call Mark Jones, Director of Music at St Andrews tel: 07833 655854
Copyright © 2022 StART. All rights reserved. Theme Suffice by ThemeGrill. Powered by: WordPress. | ham Town Hall, St. John's Smith Square, Conway Hall, Bristol Cathedral and Tokyo Alisto Hall.
As a soloist she has performed Bruch's Violin Concerto and Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with various orchestras, including the Boots Orchestra where she is a soloist in residence. Her performance of Walton's Violin Concerto won prizes at both the Croydon Music Festival and the Springboard Festival.
After attending The Purcell School and obtaining a Masters degree at the Royal College of Music (generously supported by a Sir Peter and Lady Walters Scholarship), she worked for the London Music Masters charity as a teaching assistant to Prof. Rashkovsky.
Megumi is currently the musician in residence at the Royal Marsden Hospital Chapel in Chelsea. | 157 |
An international research group led by Tom Gregorkiewicz, professor at the University of Amsterdam and Yasufumi Fujiwara, professor at Osaka University's Graduate School of Engineering together with his Japanese group at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology determined directly the<|fim_middle|> thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair. Due to their small size, the energy structure of the crystals is dramatically different from that of bulk material. In fact, the bandgap energy depends on the NC size.
The term 'perovskites' refers to the class of materials with a crystal structure in the form ABX3, and are named after the Russian mineralogist Lev Perovski. Recently, perovskites attract much attention due to their potential for high-efficient and low-cost photovoltaics. In CsPbBr3 NCs, the advantages of perovskites and NCs are combined, and they are therefore a promising material for various optoelectronic applications.
The state-of-the-art technique the researchers employed, is called low-loss electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) and arises from low energy excitations i.e. valence electrons. It is therefore an analogy to absorption spectroscopy. Using EELS together with a scanning electron transmission (STEM) microscope with ultrahigh special resolution, allows the researchers to measure the NC dimensions and location with uniquely high precision, in parallel. In that way, the energy absorption is directly mapped onto individual NCs that are either embedded in an ensemble (they have neighbors) or are completely isolated. In that way, an intimate relation between the NC size, shape and energy bandgap is established.
By determining the energy bandgap of many individual nanocrystals as a function of their size, the researchers have found that small isolated NCs appear to have a higher bandgap energy as compared to a NC of the same size surrounded by neighbors. And reversely, a large NC has lower bandgap energy if isolated than when embedded in an ensemble. Their result shows that two adjacent NCs do not simply 'merge' upon interaction and pose as a larger crystal, but rather 'average' their bandgaps. This provides direct evidence of an effective coupling between NCs where their energy bandgap and therefore energy structure, is influenced by the neighbors. These unique insights in the interacting behavior of neighboring NCs paves the way towards purposeful designing of large quantum structures and quantum-dot-solids, consisting of NCs with selective properties serving as building blocks. | relation between the bandgap energy of single cesium lead bromide nanocrystals (CsPbBr3 NCs) and their size and shape. By studying individual NCs being either isolated or surrounded by 'neighbors', they explicitly visualized for the first time band structure modification introduced by effective coupling between semiconductor NCs upon close contact.
NCs are extremely small, about a | 76 |
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A London court date has been set as former Barclays chief executive John Varley and a trio of ex-colleagues gear up for a landmark trial over the bankers' financial crisis dealings. Reuters reports that the senior bankers' trial will start on Monday over charges surrounding cash injection deals with Qatari investors that helped the bank […]
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RLAM's UK equity investment process
During this short video with Investment Week's Editor, Lawrence Gosling, RLAM's senior UK equity specialists discuss their investment process. Each manager provides insight into their individual style of investing within the asset class and goes on to outline why they collectively refuse to be beguiled by very high yields. Past performance is not a guide […] | By Daniela Esnerova 8th January 2019 10:56 am
Richard Buxton has decided to step down from the role of chief executive of Merian Global Investors. Mark Gregory will replace him, subject regulatory approval.
Buxton will remain as head of UK equities and manager of the Merian UK Alpha fund.
He will step down from the business's executive committee after a handover of responsibilities, but will continue to be involved in the firm's development via his position on its board.
Gregory joined the firm's board in October 2018 as independent non-executive director and his experience includes 19 years at Legal & General Group plc, with the last four years as its chief financial officer.
Buxton's trust raises £100m in IPO
Supported by the executive committee, board and shareholders, Gregory will remain on the board while being responsible for driving the growth of Merian Global Investors, ensuring it remains "focused on delivering positive client outcomes and excellent service".
Buxton says: "2018 was a momentous year for Merian Global Investors. With the management buyout and rebranding complete, I believe this is the appropriate time for me to hand over the CEO role. I am completely committed to the business and I will continue to be involved in its development, in my role on the board. Having known Mark for many years, I am absolutely convinced that he is the right person to take the business forward.
"My passion for investment is as strong as ever and I think there are some great opportunities in UK equities today. I will continue to seek undervalued and attractive businesses, while actively working with firms to improve corporate governance. I look forward to delivering long-term returns for our clients for many years to come."
Gregory adds: "Together with the talented executive committee, I am dedicated to delivering the business's ambitious growth plans, while maintaining the special culture cultivated under Richard's leadership."
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DFM buys stake in national IFA Continuum
Marlborough Holdings Group has acquired a 19.9 per cent stake in a national IFA Continuum Financial Services for an undisclosed sum. Continuum said the Marlborough Holdings Group's company – Marlborough Investment Management – that provides discretionary fund management services, will collaborate with the IFA to "further support their strong business growth plans". Continuum Financial Services […]
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Malcolm Kerr: Why banks will never be trusted advisers
Banks are heading back into the world of advice but a culture clash means IFAs should not feel threatened It is interesting to see how many banks, asset managers and discretionary fund managers are moving into the advice space. Some for the first time. Others, with hope winning over experience, for the second or even […]
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Standard Life Aberdeen managers up stake in Liontrust
Funds run by Standard Life Aberdeen have increased their stake in Liontrust Asset Management, according to a stock exchange notice this morning. SLA now holds 5.01 per cent of Liontrust through their funds and institutional mandates, up from 4.84 per cent. The shares were purchased through a range of UK equity funds managed by Standard | 703 |
After 20 years of working with clients involved in high risk operations around the globe, Kris founded The Callen Group in April of 2017 in order to focus solely on developing and promoting high performing operational cultures that lead to safe and efficient operations. He founded Performance Coaching International, serving as president from 2005 – 2009,was Senior Vice President at The REACH Group from 2009 – 2017 and is a highly respected Senior Leadership and Safety Facilitator. In addition, he was highly involved in the mergers of Global Marine and SantaFe, Hercules and TODCO as well as Talisman's North Sea Operations transfer from Total. Kris remains on the cutting edge of advances in the area of behavioral safety, predominately in the Oil and Gas Sector.
Kris' career has taken him to 88 countries training over 35,<|fim_middle|> is increased and that human errors are reduced to a minimum level. Bo strives to optimize human well-being and overall system performance by building strong teams that communicate and support each other's success. Teams built on a solid behavioral driven foundation achieve the goals they set for themselves.
Bo lives in Mississippi with his wife of 37 years and has two daughters, one son, and two granddaughters. | 000 people. He has been intimately involved with the development and implementation of Behavioral Safety Processes with Enterprise Offshore, Orion Drilling, Hercules Offshore, as well as the former GlobalSantaFe which is now Transocean. In 2008 Kris co-wrote a paper entitled: "H.S.E. Culture – One From Many" which was published by the IADC/SPE. This paper outlines a clear roadmap for bringing many cultures together and simplifying the safety tools that are used day in and out.
Kris holds dual Bachelor of Science degrees from Belhaven University, Jackson Mississippi, in Accounting and in Business Administration. He is passionate about creating aperformance culture where safety and efficiency go hand in hand. He currently divides his time between Lafayette, Louisiana, Tampa, Florida and Houston, Texas and has four grown sons: Braxton, Taylor, Joshua and Noah.
Lynella Devillier serves as Chief Financial Officer and Strategic Advisor at The Callen Group. She has successfully lead businesses and individuals in financial strategy and deployment of capital, as well as mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. Her success working in oil & gas, financial services, real estate and software industries coupled with a thriving personal business uniquely qualifies her to plan and direct our financial future.
Lynella works closely with the President on the strategic vision, assists in performing all tasks necessary to achieve the organization's mission and helps execute staff succession and growth plans. This includes fostering and cultivating stakeholder relationships on local and international levels, as well as assisting in the development and negotiation of contracts. Her strategic financial and business planning skill sets strengthen The Callen Group's future growth.
Ms. Devillier holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a degree in Marketing from the University of Louisiana and is a long time Ragin Cajun. She resides in Lafayette, La. and enjoys weekends on her farm in the country with her family.
Bo Brasher is a trusted Human Performance Coach with a background in medical psychology. His Leadership and Safety Training experience have been focused in the Oil & Gas Industry for over 18 years. He has coached and trained in 25+ countries, primarily on high risk operations and reinforcing cultural changes within teams to develop the optimal safety and performance culture.
Bo holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Clinical Psychology and a Master's degree in Counseling Psychology from the University of Southern Mississippi. His education and experience in understanding human behaviors and team dynamics make him an effective leader of change. Using scientific disciplines to understand how people interact with mechanical process, he works to ensure that system process efficiency | 523 |
Review / Diageo Special Releases 2021
The arrival of Autumn is always signalled by Diageo, Scotland's largest whisky producer, announcing the line-up for their annual Special Releases programme. Each year these bottlings are designed to highlight rare or old whiskies from within Diageo's extensive portfolio of maturing stocks and are eagerly anticipated each year since the series was first started with just three expressions in 2001. The 2021 collection marks the 20th anniversary of the Special Releases.
This year is one of the smaller recent collections and sees just eight bottlings. The eight have been put together to show the stories of whisky from different environments and terrains across Scotland. This incorporates a set of mythical creatures that reside in the sea, lochs and mountains and can be seen on the packaging. The 2021 collection is subtitled Legends Untold as a result. The striking artwork has been created by illustrator Ken Taylor.
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Allotment Drams / Glenmorangie Lighthouse 12 years old & Redbreast Pedro Ximenez Edition
We have two more recent episodes from our Allotment Dram review series for you. Both are exciting and brand new releases. Firstly Matt discusses the Glenmorangie Lighthouse 12 years old, a distillery exclusive that he recently picked up when visiting. It has been created to celebrate the opening of the new experimental Lighthouse distillery that has been built next to Glenmorangie up in the north Highlands. Watch to find out more about the innovative project and the whisky, before Matt pops the cork and gives his thoughts and tasting notes.
Then on a very warm late September afternoon, Matt returns to the allotment and takes a look at the new Irish single pot still whiskey of Redbreast Pedro Ximenez Edition. Watch to discover more about the whiskey and the new range that it is joining, plus his thoughts and tasting notes.
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Review / Torabhaig Allt Gleann
The Allt Gleann is just the second ever single malt release from Torabhaig (pronounced tora-vaig), the newest distillery on the isle of Skye. This follows the inaugural Legacy Series 2017 bottling that was released earlier this year in February and sold out immediately. Allt Gleann, meaning 'old glen' in Gaelic, is the second of four planned releases for 2021 and 2022 in The Legacy Series. The new whisky has been created from just 30 first-fill and re-fill ex-bourbon barrels that were distilled and filled in 2017. It is bottled at 46% ABV and is both non chill-filtered and of natural colour. Torabhaig Allt Gleann is available from the distillery shop and via selected specialist whisky retailers. A bottle will cost £50.
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Allotment Drams / Starward Two-Fold & Power's John's Lane 12 years old
We have two more episodes from our Allotment Dram series. Within this we record whisky reviews in the surroundings of our north London allotment. For these two new episodes we have gone Australian and Irish. First, watch as Matt talks about the Starward Two-Fold - a whisky made from berley and wheat at the Melbourne-based distillery. Discover some background behind the distillery and bottling before finding our his thoughts and tasting notes.
Then on his next visit he takes a look at the Power's John's Lane 12 years old, a classic single pot still whiskey from the famous old Irish brand. Learn a bit about the history of Power's and its old distillery in John's Lane, Dublin. Then he pours a dram, so discover his thoughts and tasting notes.
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Review / Benriach Malting Season (First Edition)
This whisky is a very special new limited edition from the innovative Speyside distillery of Benriach. The Benriach Malting Season is the first in over a century that uses barley malted exclusively at the distillery using the traditional floor maltings that were restored in 2012. This First Edition has seen the spirit produced from the floor malted barley then matured in ex-bourbon and virgin oak casks. There are 23 casks in total and they were married together by Dr. Rachel Barrie, the Master Blender for Benriach, to create the final product. This inaugural release used a variety of barley called concerto. Benriach is one of only two distilleries in Speyside to have an operational floor malting. Balvenie is the other.
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Allotment Drams / Starward Two-Fold & Power's John... | Welcome to Inbox, our weekly round up of whisky news and PR material that has found its way in to our WFE email. It was created as we cannot write full articles or do justice to every piece received. It features items from around the world of whisky and is published by us each Friday. Within Inbox we aim to write a few lines detailing each press release/piece of news/PR event that we have received and provide links, where possible, for you to find out further information.
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Distillery Visit / Glenkinchie
Despite having been to Edinburgh for work and pleasure on numerous occasions, we had somehow never got around to visiting Glenkinchie. For much of its recent history this unassuming distillery was the closest to Scotland's capital and attracted many visitors because of the fact. Now it has increasing competition with the Holyrood distillery built right in the centre of Edinburgh and a couple more new ones out in Leith. So what have owners Diageo done? Given it a major revamp and made it even more important than ever.
Glenkinchie is now the official Lowland home of Johnnie Walker, the world's best selling Scotch whisky of which its single malt is an important component. The distillery is one of four dotted around Scotland that each play a similarly influential role within the famous blended range. The other three official regional homes of Johnnie Walker that form Diageo's Four Corners of Scotland are Caol Ila on Islay, Cardhu in Speyside and Clynelish in the Highlands. Each has been renovated to tell each distillery's individual story within the wider Johnnie Walker tale.
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Review / Glenturret Triple Wood, 10 years old Peat Smoked & 12 years old
These three new whiskies form part of the 2021 range of single malts from the Highland distillery of Glenturret, which is the oldest currently operating in Scotland. The range follows 2020's Maiden Release series and features the same six expressions - the no age statement Triple Wood, 10 years old Peat Smoked and then age statements at 12, 15, 25 and 30 years old. However, each whisky is different to its 2020 version. They have been created by Bob Dalgarno, the Whisky Maker for Glenturret.
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Review / Glenmorangie Lighthouse 12 years old
This new whisky has been released to celebrate the official opening of the new Lighthouse facility at the famous north Highland distillery of Glenmorangie. The Glenmorangie Lighthouse 12 years old is a combination of ex-bourbon barrels and ex-sherry casks, with a ratio of 80% to 20% respectively. It is exclusively available at the Glenmorangie distillery shop. The new single malt is the brainchild of Dr. Bill Lumsden, the Director of Whisky Creation at Glenmorangie, and is released at the strength of 48% ABV. It is also non chill-filtered. There are just 4,782 bottles in the limited batch and each will cost £85.
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Review / Aberfeldy 18 years old Côte Rôtie Finish
This new whisky is the third bottling in the French Red Wine Cask Collection from the Highland distillery of Aberfeldy. The series kicked off in 2019 with the 15 years old Pomerol Finish and was followed in 2020 by the 18 years old Pauillac Finish. This third release has been finished in Côte Rôtie wine barrels sourced by Stephanie Macleod, the Malt Master for Aberfeldy, from the famous Rhône Valley in France. The Côte Rôtie appelation is located in the northern Rhône and covers around 500 hectares. There are 60 vineyards with most growing the Syrah and Viognier grape varieties. The wines are known for their elegance and finesse with fruity and floral characteristics.
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Review / Diageo Prima & Ultima Collection (2021 Edition)
This set of single malts form the second line-up for the annual Prima & Ultima Collection from Diageo, Scotland's largest whisky producers. The 2021 Edition consists of eight rare bottlings and shows the diversity of maturing stock across Diageo's portfolio, both from current and closed distilleries. The whiskies were selected by Maureen Robinson, Senior Blender at Diageo, who has taken over the reigns from Jim Beveridge OBE. He curated the inaugural set in 2020.
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Allotment Drams / Abasolo & The Whistler 'Mosiac' Marsala Cask
There are two more Allotment Drams, the series of short videos where we sit and review whiskies at our north London allotment, for you. And they are two slightly different ones too. Firstly, Matt takes a look at a new Mexican whisky called Abasolo, which is made from 100% Mexican heritage corn varieties and uses ancient techniques during the whisky making process. Watch to discover more about the groundbreaking distillery where it is produced and then Matt's thoughts and tasting notes.
Then he is back on a hot September afternoon and is back in Ireland for his next choice - The Whistler Marsala Cask from their small batch single grain range of whiskeys. Find out more about the brand and the Boann distillery that it is associated with and then discover Matt's thoughts and tasting notes.
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ANDREW BOURKE & JESSE BELL
With a deep curiosity for the natural world, Andrew Bourke's work is inspired by the energy and beauty that is found within nature.
"Since I was a child, I have found myself curious of the natural world... Drawn to the smallest of details, I look to find the space in-between."
This passion for detail is seen in Bourke's finely observed graphic work, and his deft use of colour. Having refined his craft over many years as an urban artist, Bourke moves between the mediums of aerosol, house paint<|fim_middle|> it's rich and vibrant colour, technically accurate, fast, free-flowing line, and ambition of scale.
Bourke's mural work can be seen around the streets of his hometown Melbourne, and throughout much of the country thanks to his extensive travels in search of inspiration.
Bourke has previously exhibited in Melbourne's NGV Studio Space and is now excited to be producing art primarily in a contemporary art context.
When Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu passed in July 2017 it was a great loss to music lovers world wide and the close knit Territory community.
With blessings from his family artists Andrew Bourke and Jesse bell are immortalising his image as a beautiful artwork. Then background is made up of lyrics from some of his iconic songs.
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Getting professional wealth advice – or really any professional advice – can be frustrating. We are asked to open up our lives and disclose our thoughts to someone who is initially a stranger. Personally, I'd love to know what my professional advisors are thinking on a whole range of issues.
This week senior wealth advisor Carmen McHale of BDO Canada LLP takes a step from behind the desk to share her thoughts on the past five years of dispensing wealth advice. She also wanted to thank two colleagues – Indy Sebastian and Eric Wipf – for their help in reality-checking her thoughts.
When asked to write about what I have learned from clients in the past five years, my initial thought was – everything. But that might take too long to cover. So instead I'll focus on one area that I find fascinating: the emotional biases I first learned of in textbooks and now see in investing practice. Emotional biases arise from impulse, intuition and feelings and can result in irrational decision-making. Because they are all about how we feel and react – they are impulses, after all – they are harder to mitigate.
Knowing ourselves is something many of us take for granted, feeling that it comes naturally – but how well do most of us actually know ourselves? We may think that there is no one we know better, but the truth is, we are often blind to our deficiencies. Despite our attempts to stay impartial, our emotions sway us more than we care to admit.
When a decision is made to invest, it is usually based on what we think we will gain. Although a good advisor will focus on communicating the downside risks associated with investing, it is very hard to know how we will feel about that downside until it actually happens.
When it does happen – because it will – are we going to fall prey to our emotions, or will logic prevail? If your portfolio is down 10% and your advisor is telling you to stay the course, are you going to take that advice? If an investment results in a loss, will you be able to swallow the loss as a sunk cost and sell the investment – or will you want to keep it until it bounces back? Will you want to sell an investment too soon because you are afraid your gains will turn into losses?
So what have I learned? That no two families or situations are the same, and while logical reasoning attempts to quantify risk in an investment policy statement, often when faced with a real investment loss – the experience of seeing it – revisiting the investment policy statement reveals the tolerance for losses is lower than originally thought. With honest communication about how the investment policy is there in part to reflect the tolerance for risk, advisors can help keep a client's plans on track.
Overconfidence bias is thinking you know more than you do about a certain topic, or thinking you have more control about an outcome than you do. I have worked in Calgary for my entire career, and often deal with professionals in the oil and gas industry – they know the industry and believe in it. This leads them to over-weigh their investments. Their current and future income is based on the price of oil; add to that a large concentration of oil and gas stocks in their portfolio and the risk is amplified.
Unfortunately, this compounded risk reared its ugly head in the last few years in Alberta, setting many oil and gas professionals' best-laid plans off track. The markets can take down anyone, regardless of investors' level of knowledge.
So what have I learned? To present alternative scenarios. One that over-weights investments in line with the overconfidence bias and one with a balanced portfolio. Canadians have become better versed in the extremes of markets, and whether it be the oil and gas professional or the real estate speculator I have learned to discuss the lows with clients and hope that the risk and volatility resonates.
As a lover of chocolate, I am very familiar with this bias. Time after time, I buy a bag of chocolate raisins and think I can limit myself to a handful. We tend towards immediate gratification.
In an investing context, there is the inability to focus on the long-term goals – like not saving enough for retirement and only realizing when you are 55 that you are running out of time. This can lead people to take excessive risks when investing. Clients often think that the markets will solve the problem if their portfolio can just get them a 15% return.
So what have I learned? That for the most part clients really just want to know where they stand. Given a detailed action plan, they can focus on short-term goals while understanding the long-term focus. I have learned I need to be the practical voice and provide the client with the tools and knowledge to make the right decisions, and be there for them along the way.
This is all about not taking action because you do not want to be wrong – you try to avert regret. When you have this emotional bias, you are more likely to do what everyone else is doing. This can cause investors to over-concentrate their investments in well-known companies. Then, if the position goes down, it is not your fault because you were simply following the herd. Regret aversion is about avoiding making true decisions and then rationalizing the poor decisions that were made.
In these situations, I try to educate clients on the various investment management options that exist in the marketplace. Most are familiar with bank representatives and investment brokers where the advisors assess your risk tolerance, time horizon and performance objectives to determine which asset classes are most suitable - but investors ultimately make the buy and sell decisions, and the advisor's role is primarily to offer an informed opinion.
On the other hand, I am a big proponent of discretionary investing, which is a more hands-off approach for the client. In discretionary investing, advisors still collaborate with the client to assess their investment goals. But it removes the ultimate investment decisions from the client and transfers them to the advisor, who communicates the investment decisions and reports the results. Discretionary investing provides the necessary framework around investment decisions and helps to remove many of the emotional biases surrounding investment decisions.
So what have I learned? That many clients like to have a "play" portfolio – where they can invest a specified amount of money in less popular companies. Clients enjoy the opportunity to do their gambling here without having to worry about their nest egg.
This is the urge to do nothing. As human beings we typically dislike change. Staying with the status quo is much easier. People feel greater regret for bad outcomes that result from a new action taken than for bad consequences that come from doing nothing.
Changes from the status quo will often involve both gains and losses, but the tendency to overemphasize the avoidance of losses – loss aversion – will favour keeping things the way they are. This leads to inaction when action may be called for.
So what have I learned? That most clients meet with me to challenge this bias, and most people when<|fim_middle|> have been any significant life events since you last updated it. In addition, you will want to ensure all your beneficiary designations (RRSP and TFSA, for example) agree to your will and are up to date. Many people have inadvertently left significant assets to ex-spouses by not updating their designations.
There have been substantial changes to the tax laws in the last few years, which can affect the tax treatment of trusts created by will and provisions for disabled children. If you have created trusts in your will or have a disabled child, you may want to contact your accountant or lawyer to see if these changes necessitate any change to your will.
Some provinces allow for dual wills, one for assets subject to probate and one for assets not subject to probate. If you live in Ontario and have two wills, a recent case (Milne Estate, 2018 ONSC 4174) may have nullified the benefit of your will that is not subject to probate. If your lawyer has not contacted you to discuss the impact this case has on your wills, contact them yourself immediately.
News Flash: the Milne decision was overturned last Thursday.
You should have two powers of attorney (POAs), one for your financial affairs and one for your health care.
POA's for health care have evolved over the last few years for such matters as heroic measures and even assisted-death provisions. You may want to consider updating this document depending upon your personal and religious views on these issues.
As noted earlier, you will want to ensure that the beneficiary designations for pension plans and registered plans are in line with your will and your intentions. Often these designations are out of date.
After completing the Financial Information: Liabilities section of the organizer, review and ensure you have enough insurance (see discussion below) or liquid assets to pay off any of these liabilities should you pass away. You may also wish to assess whether this is a good time to have a financial or retirement plan prepared or updated.
1. Do you have any unnecessary insurance policies you purchased long ago and never cancelled?
2. Do you have enough insurance based on how much you spend annually, the debt you hold and significant funding expenses you still need to incur, such as tuition for your children?
3. If you have significant funds in your corporation (especially if you will have excess funds in your corporation you will not need in retirement), have you considered purchasing a corporate-funded insurance policy?
Ensure that you detail any stock options, deferred stock units, deferred profit-sharing plans or any other of these more complex plans. Heirs often face confusion with these plans when someone passes away, so the more clarity you can provide (e.g., dates, units, tax cost basis, purchase price), the easier it will be for your family to deal with these plans.
Most employers are very good at assisting the family after the death of a loved one, but you will put your family in the best position possible by providing as many details as you can.
1. Are you taking advantage of all income splitting opportunities? You should review this with your accountant, especially given the implementation of the Tax on Split Income (TOSI) rules.
2. Consider if your investment returns are in line with your expectations and whether you even know what your returns are. See this blog post for a discussion of this topic and some useful links.
1. A notation of the year you last claimed the principal residence exemption (PRE) on the sale of your home. This will allow your executor and estate to tax plan upon death or going forward in respect of future PRE claims if you have, say, a house and cottage. See this blog post for the new reporting rules on PRE claims.
2. If you elected in 1994 to crystalize $100,000 of capital gains on property you still hold, attach a copy of your 1994 form T664 to this document. The government allowed one final election to utilize your capital gains exemption before phasing out the exemption on real estate and marketable securities in 1994.
Note: Qualified small business corporations (QSBCs) continue to be eligible for the capital gains exemption — see this blog post for details.
Ensure you have introduced your spouse or significant other to all your financial advisors. It is much easier for a surviving spouse to deal with the aftermath of a passing when they already have a level of comfort with the advisors they will have to deal with.
You should review your executor appointments to ensure they are the correct people for the job.
If you have not informed your executors they have been named, you should inform them. You may want to inform the executor that you have completed the organizer so that they will know it exists and where they can find it.
If you do not have someone you can name as an executor or there is possible family conflict, consider naming an institution as an executor.
If you have digital assets of value (e.g., cryptocurrency, websites), ensure you have obtained tax and legal advice and have considered them in your will. See this blog post on the topic from estate lawyer Katy Basi.
Katy also guest posted this excellent piece on a 21st century issue: how to deal with reproductive assets in your will.
This is truly a morbid topic, but ensure someone is aware of any pre-paid or funeral wishes.
This estate organizer is one heck of a homework assignment. But it is one of the most selfless things you can do for your family, especially if you have significant assets or complex financial affairs. | given small, quantifiable actions generally want to challenge this bias.
What have I learned from clients over the years? That even the well versed in the irrationalities of the market fall prey to the reality of emotions. And of course, as humans we are creatures of nature – so even when we do know our weaknesses, we may shy away from hearing hard truths. The fear of needing to break detrimental habits built up over a lifetime, or the realization that our behaviors have prevented us from meeting our financial goals.
One of the major roles we fill as advisors is that of the voice of reason. We strive to be the objective practical eyes, guided by experience, assisting our clients in navigating these biases in the context of their overall goals. We strive to help our clients understand that these goals are not achieved by leaps and bounds but by well-considered small steps – that proverbial journey of a thousand miles.
Carmen McHale is a senior wealth advisor for BDO in Calgary. She can be reached at cmchale@bdo.ca, or by calling 403.956.0103.
This decision from the U.S. Supreme Court brought sales tax into the 21st century by finally ushering ecommerce into the sales tax tent. Now ecommerce companies — even Canadian companies — will need to think about collecting state sales tax. And while Wayfair was triggered by ecommerce, other Canadian companies will also feel the impact when doing business with the U.S.
Today Naomi Cutler, Senior Manager, U.S. State and Local Tax at BDO, zooms out to reflect on the events leading up to this key decision — and how Canadian business owners and leaders need to adapt.
Most U.S. states impose sales tax on purchases of goods, and many also tax some services. For those states with a sales tax, the tax revenues often account for the largest income line item in the budget.
Businesses resident in the state are required to collect the tax. Over 25 years ago, the federal Supreme Court ruled that out-of-state businesses must have a physical presence in-state for sales tax collection laws to apply to them.
With the rise of e-commerce came deficits in state budgets. Most e-commerce retailers were not required to collect sales tax, so many transactions were going "un-taxed." Bricks and mortar stores were also suffering from lost revenue, partially attributable to not being able to compete with the "sales tax discount" available to consumers who purchase online.
Congress drafted several "Marketplace Fairness Acts" in efforts to create sales tax parity between online retailers and their competitors with retail storefronts. None of these passed through both the House and Senate. Vocal states like New Hampshire, the Live Free or Die state, derided the idea that their local businesses should be stuck with the headache of collection of any state's tax.
Meanwhile, Supreme Court Justice Kennedy made a comment in passing, suggesting that it was time to bring a new case to the Supreme Court to test prior rulings on physical presence.
Several states took up the challenge, and South Dakota was the first to make it to court. Its legislature drafted a law that looked to be unconstitutional: Per the law, an out-of-state business will need to collect state sales tax, once it has $100,000 of sales to South Dakota in a year, or had 200 transactions in a year. The company Wayfair and several other similar businesses did not abide by the new law. The state of South Dakota took them to district court, and eventually the case made its way to the Supreme Court.
Since June 21, many states have enacted laws similar to South Dakota's, and have begun to enforce those laws. The expectation is there will now be a level playing field between bricks and mortar and ecommerce.
To be clear — the change in rules was targeted to recoup losses from ecommerce, but it reaches a lot further than that. Many Canadian B2B companies have in the past successfully sold into the U.S. market without sufficient presence in the U.S. to trigger sales tax collection responsibilities. These rules may change that. What has not changed is that sales tax is still only collectable from the end user and that often machinery and equipment sales are exempt. Sellers should collect and retain sufficient documentation to maintain rights to these exemptions.
The changes brought about by Wayfair are very complex. Please contact your professional advisors or seek advice from a U.S. state tax specialist to understand how this case impacts your business.
To learn more about managing your taxes when doing business in the U.S., read this new guide.
Naomi Cutler is Senior Manager, U.S. State and Local Tax, with BDO Canada LLP. She can be reached at ncutler@bdo.ca or by phone at 647.730.6762.
We have all heard the expression about affairs of the heart: opposites attract. However, how do these opposites operate when managing a family's financial affairs? Spouses and common-law partners sometimes come to the relationship with differing levels of financial literacy.
When meeting with couples to discuss their financial affairs, it has always amazed me how one spouse often takes control of that aspect of their lives and the other spouse, in many cases, abdicates that responsibility. Of course, in some families, the financial duties are shared and both spouses have an understanding of the family's finances, but I would suggest this is the exception rather than the rule.
How do you as the "financial spouse" involve the other spouse in spite of their indifference or reticence? How can you help them overcome their comparative lack of financial literacy? Why would you even want to?
For the sake of your marriage — it is best to have consensus on financial decisions.
You may die first — your spouse needs to be aware of and understand family finances, or it could lead to severe financial consequences. At minimum it could create significant stress for them after you die.
Get a new view — it may be useful to have a different perspective on financial issues.
An estate organizer is a great tool to plan, document, and communicate with your spouse on key financial issues. It doesn't help just your spouse — it assists your entire family and your executor on your death.
While this estate organizer is really a future document, you can use it to educate your spouse now. If you have not prepared this document, do so; if you have already prepared it, you should review it with your spouse. Walk through each section. It will provide clarity on your affairs to your spouse and they will at least have some familiarity with this document if your death precedes theirs.
Introducing your spouse to your advisors means involving them in meetings. Introductions to your advisors will help your spouse develop a comfort level with the advisors. This will go a long way if you pass away and are not around to continue the relationships. On a current basis, if your spouse attends these meetings, they will begin to gain at least a minimum understanding of your affairs.
If you create a family budget, you should review it with your spouse. A non-financial spouse will often consider this a form of financial torture, so keep the review brief and hit on points that your spouse is responsible for or will affect them. Seeing that you spent x dollars on restaurants may crystallize your concern about eating out too much to your spouse. Along similar lines, reviewing your interest expense will highlight the need to reduce debt. Any number of issues can be discussed.
Your spouse may surprise you. Sometimes showing the raw numbers in black and white can trigger an interest in financial affairs that – after all – affect them just as much as they affect you.
It may help to have your spouse be responsible for paying certain bills. This teaches them how to pay bills, especially online. I am often shocked by how many spouses have no clue about banking and paying bills. By taking an active role in this crucial activity, they can see first-hand the budget issues your family may have. In addition, should you pass away, it is vital your spouse have basic banking and bill paying skills.
I have always stressed the importance of looking at your investments annually to review your returns, fees and asset allocation. While your spouse may not care about the minutia, they may be interested in your yearly returns.
When there is a significant financial event – Brexit, an interest rate hike, trade agreement negotiations, or even relevant tweets from U.S. President Donald Trump – you may wish to have discussions with your spouse, so they are aware and understand the potential impact on your day-to-day lives.
There are many practical ways to get your spouse involved in the family's financial affairs. Feel free to discuss them in the comments below.
While there are some people who do not really want their spouse to have too much knowledge of their financial affairs, let's hope these spouses are few and far between. For everyone else, the benefits of improving your spouse's financial literacy are significant. I would suggest that you consider implementing some or all of the steps I discuss above to improve your spouse's financial literacy and your family's financial and estate planning. Your marriage and finances with be all the better for it.
It's that time of year again. We have just a few weeks left until the Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) deadline, and despite its almost 60 years in existence, there are still plenty of myths and misconceptions surrounding this popular retirement savings plan.
Today, Sarah Rahme, CFP, a wealth advisor with BDO Canada LLP, gets us ready for the 2019 RRSP deadline by demystifying 19 common RRSP myths.
The reality is that every Canadian needs to evaluate their own fit for an RRSP. We generally say that Canadians earning a lower income (under $50,000 yearly) should use a Tax Free Savings Account (TFSA) instead. Moderate earners have to weigh the pros and cons before deciding which option will work better for them in the long run. This typically entails weighing the tax savings you would gain today versus the tax cost when you withdraw your RRSP or Registered Retirement Income Fund (RRIF) in the future and how quickly you may need to access the funds in your TFSA.
Some of you may wonder: what is the point of sheltering tax now since you will be paying it back at some point? Needless to say, should your tax bracket be lower in retirement, you will benefit from significant tax savings and tax-free compounded returns.
But what if your tax rate ends up being higher during retirement? We believe depending upon your specific situation, you may still be ahead based on the long-term tax-free compounding effect.
finance your or your spouse's training or education with the Lifelong Learning Plan (LLP) ($10,000 per year up to $20,000 in total to finance your education at a qualifying institution).
Let's distinguish between two types of debt: high-interest and low-interest. For high-interest debt – the best example is credit cards, which can carry rates of up to 29.99% – absolutely, paying off debt should take precedence. But when it comes to low-interest debt, such as a mortgage, be careful not to scrimp on retirement savings. As long as you can generate a return on your investments that is higher than your cost of borrowing, it may make more sense to invest rather than pay down that low-interest debt.
Technically, funds in an RRSP are available to the plan holder at any time, even if there is a withholding tax on the funds withdrawn. (The exception, of course, is withdrawals under the Home Buyer's Plan or Lifelong Learning Plan, which are tax-free.) That being said, unless you really need the money, try to withdraw RRSP money at a time when your tax bracket is the same or lower than it was at the time of the contribution. Be aware that the statutory tax withholding may be significantly less than the actual income tax you owe in April, so plan for this shortfall.
This may be the case if you don't intend to make a withdrawal from the plan in the next three years, but if you do, the contribution timing matters.
As a reminder, spousal RRSPs allow one spouse to contribute to the other's RRSP. This can often be a sound tax strategy when one spouse earns significantly more money than the other. However, spousal RRSPs come with conditions. One big one is that funds withdrawn within three years are attributed as income to the contributor and taxed accordingly.
Withdrawal rules are based on calendar years, which means that if you make a contribution for 2019 by December 2019, you'll be able to withdraw money attributed to the plan holder as soon as January 2022. If you make that same contribution sometime in the first 60 days of 2020, you'll have to wait until January 2023 before withdrawals are taxed in the plan holder's hands.
This is not always the case. It's true that your student loans will be paid off, and you'll most likely generate more income. But you may also have new obligations, such as a mortgage or the financial responsibilities of child-rearing.
If the beneficiary of the deceased is a surviving spouse or common-law partner, the funds will roll over tax-free into their RRSP or RRIF.
If you have a child or grandchild who was dependent on you due to physical or mental infirmity, the funds will roll over tax-free into their RRSP or RRIF.
Like with all investing, the secret formula is compounding. If you begin your investment journey, even with small sums, a long-term strategy will build those initial amounts into greater wealth.
Well, you can definitely claim your RRSP deduction every year – and benefit from the tax deduction immediately. But remember: If you think your tax bracket will be higher in subsequent years, you may want keep the deduction in your back pocket and maximize your tax savings.
It is true that you must convert your holdings by the end of the year in which you turn 71. You can, however, convert a portion, or the entire amount, at any earlier age. In fact, it may make sense to withdraw $2,000 per year from your RRSP to utilize your pension tax credit to offset the taxes on the RRIF income once you turn 65.
take out the account value as a lump sum cash payment. In this case, you'd need to pay tax on the whole payment.
buy a life annuity that would pay income at regular intervals for the rest of your life.
Your personal RRSP contribution limit doesn't change just because you have two accounts at your disposal. You have a choice to use your own RRSP, your spousal RRSP or a combination of both, but only up to your personal RRSP limit.
RRSP contribution rules offer you more ways to contribute than just cash. You can also use stocks and bonds and make what is known as a contribution-in-kind. However, if you transfer stocks or bonds with an unrealized gain, you will trigger a capital gain, and if the stocks or bonds are in a loss position, your capital loss will be denied.
Sure, that's an option. But it's probably better to make contributions to your RRSP throughout the year. Many people do this via a regular payroll deduction. This both helps your long-term savings and decreases your debt obligations.
Many Canadians do follow that strategy, but it's suboptimal. First of all, you lose out on a year of tax-free growth for your funds. Besides that, are you convinced you'll have access to the necessary funds in the waning days of February?
This is a common source of confusion. In reality, an RRSP can be opened at any age. A TFSA, on the other hand, can only be opened by someone 18 years or older. That being said, typically it will not make income tax sense to contribute before you are earning substantial income.
The RRSP rules do restrict some investment vehicles, such as precious metals and land. Some other vehicles are permitted but can be problematic and complex. These include mortgages and shares of a private corporation. Speak with your financial advisor to learn more about holding these vehicles in your RRSP.
Registered pension plans and deferred profit-sharing plans affect your RRSP contribution limit in the same way. Your annual T4 information slip from your employer includes a pension adjustment amount which reduces your RRSP contribution room.
The general formula is as follows: Your RRSP deduction limit for a tax year starts with contribution room carried forward plus your current year's contribution room, minus any Pension Adjustment or Past Service Pension Adjustment and plus any Pension Adjustment Reversal.
Sarah Rahme, CFP, is a wealth advisor with BDO Canada LLP and covers Eastern Canada. If you would like help structuring a customized comprehensive financial plan for you and your family, contact Sarah at SRahme@bdo.ca or 613 739-8221, ext. 4520. For other parts of Canada, contact Sarah and she will direct you to the BDO contact person in your region.
Two weeks ago, I posted the BDO estate organizer. In that post I emphasized the importance of writing your financial story and ensuring your financial information and wishes are documented.
Not to be morbid, but since Roma Luciw of The Globe and Mail has called me "morbid Mark," I reiterate once again: if you do not communicate and document your financial affairs for your family or executors, you at best leave your family a messy estate at a time of distress and at worst cost your estate and family thousands of dollars.
Today I will walk you through completing the Organizer and some of the important issues that arise in completing the document.
The most important item in this section is citizenship. Many Canadian don't realize this, but parts of your estate can trigger tax consequences if you are a citizen of another country. This typically applies to U.S. citizens, since the U.S. taxes based on citizenship; while most other countries tax based on residency.
Perhaps the biggest issue for U.S. citizens is home ownership. As discussed in this blog post, the U.S. has a $250,000 or $500,000 principal residence exemption, depending upon your marital and citizenship status. The fact that a tax-free home sale in Canada can result in taxes in the U.S. is often very shocking to Canadians filing U.S. tax returns.
Your U.S. citizenship can trigger many other tax consequences — such as U.S. estate tax —based on differing laws south of the border. And of course, U.S. tax compliance should begin well before estate planning makes an appearance in your life. If you are a U.S. citizen or green card holder, you should be filing U.S. tax returns. If you are not filing, you should seek U.S. tax advice.
If you are a citizen of another country, you may want to determine if citizenship in that country would have any income tax consequences upon your passing.
In addition, depending upon the politics of your home country and your children's familiarity with that country, you may wish to sell your foreign assets as you age to simplify your estate.
If you do not have a will, it's time to have one drafted. As discussed in this blog post, 65% of Canadians do not even have a will and 12% of wills are outdated. Yes, your read that correctly: only 3 of 10 Canadians have an up-to-date will.
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We've been lucky enough to work with Kevin on some second screen thinking and one of the things he's made me realise is - it's not the nature of the screen that's important, it's the nature of the attention. Secondary Attention is a different beast and one we'll have to think about differently.
Our default habit is to design media that trys to grab all the available attention. (Normally meaning all the optical attention.) And that's getting us into trouble. It's why Dentsu/BERG's work here is so clever -it's designed to be respectful of our primary attention, offering something quick, quiet, useful or rewarding in the moments we can spare it some mind. That's why it offers such an attractive alternative to the Blade Runner/Cillit Bang scenario.
Those of us with backgrounds in advertising should already be thinking about this because we've all read Robert Heath on Low Attention Processing and should have realised how much we can communicate with someone who's not really watching. But, it seems, we can't learn those lessons, we refuse to be humble and quiet. We want all the attention, for as long as possible.
And, Kevin's presentation here, made me wonder if that's part of the problem with AR. It's trying to insert itself right in the middle of your primary attention when a lot of the stuff it's trying to deliver is only worthy of being around the edges.
So maybe what's actually interesting now is experimenting with secondary attention, in various different ways, playing with modes like glancing rather than staring.
Many of my favourite examples of Secondary Attention apps seem to get auditioned on this little screen in the BRIG. There's always something interesting up there, varying from dashboardy stuff to the playful or restful.
Above, for instance, is James Wheare's BRIGTunes, which the RIG has been happily been living with for a while.
And, inspired by You Are Listening To Los Angeles, space shuttle activity tends to see the screen tuned to NASA TV accompanied by a drum and bass podcast to create a sort of joyful-wistful-ambient-science-show.
And, the ipads in the office, or the laptop screens next to the monitors tend to be<|fim_middle|>abbing information but will be superfluous and cheap enough to be left in the corner and glanced at occasionally.
Romance has lived too long upon this river, for instance, shows you, quietly and beautifully, the height of the Thames tide. It's somewhere between art, craft and technology, between a snow-globe, a screensaver and a painting.
Or there's Robot Flaneur - which Chris has neatly described as Ambient Tourism.
Thinking about Secondary Attention properly will yield new uses for screens; Slow Television might be one, but the thing that's exciting me most will be elsewhere, it'll be screenless. It'll be based on sound.
But that's a post for a different day. | tuned to dextr or some other little attention toy.
James Bridle is the master of this stuff. He's been building all these lovely things, designed for the coming super-abundance of screens, when they won't be burdened with the obligation to deliver important attention-gr | 55 |
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Proud Simeone Defends Valverde's 'Game-Winning' Red Card After Supercopa Loss
Diego Simeone provided unlikely support for Real Madrid's Federico Valverde following the Uruguayan's cynical foul in the Spanish Super Cup Final on Sunday.
Diego Simeone was proud of Atletico Madrid's performance in defeat to city rivals Real Madrid in the Supercopa de Espana final as he suggested Federico Valverde only earned the MVP award for his crucial red<|fim_middle|>"And we competed well. That is what generates enthusiasm to continue working. I am proud of the team for their competitiveness. If we follow the team plan, we are competitive."
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Atletico lost 4-1 in a shoot-out on Sunday but had a huge chance to settle the decider with five minutes of extra time remaining following a goalless 90 minutes.
Alvaro Morata raced through on goal, only for Madrid midfielder Valverde to charge back to cynically hack down the striker, receiving his marching orders but preventing what appeared a certain goal just outside the area.
Valverde was named man of the match, leaving head coach Simeone frustrated, even if he recognised the 21-year-old Uruguayan had little option but to commit the foul.
With Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid tied in extra time, Federico Valverde was shown a red card for this last man tackle on Alvaro Morata.
He picked up the Man of the Match award 🏆 pic.twitter.com/vJV4TwduIN
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"The MVP award for Fede Valverde was for the red card because he won the game," Simeone said.
"The most important play of the game was this action of Valverde. That play deprived us of a chance to score a goal that would probably decide the game.
"It was the most important play and I told him not to worry, that anyone would do the same in that position. I would do it."
After beating Barcelona 3-2 in the semi-finals earlier in the week, Simeone saw plenty of positives to take from the revamped four-team tournament.
"I am proud to know that we competed," he told Movistar. "In the space of three or four days, we faced two of the best teams in the world, along with Manchester City, Juventus, Liverpool.
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Q: Synthetic Model Object I want to test a multinomial logit model that has been published by another author against one that I have developed. I have his coefficients, but neither the standard errors nor the model fit statistics.
Is there a way to<|fim_middle|> inverse transformation the predicted probability p.
A: You do not need to make a "blank" mlogit object. Make predictions from your fitted mlogit() model for the new data. Then make predictions for the competing model "by hand". See this answer for a pretty detailed explanation of how to do that.
| create an mlogit object without estimating it? Can I create a blank object and fill it with the coefficient estimates? Could this be used for prediction? Are there pitfalls to doing so?
A: I assume you have the estimated parameters in his model so that given a data point you can make a prediction. Then you could do predictions with both models and compare them. I see no problem with doing this as long as the comparison is meaningful (in this case is the test data set of the type that both models were built to predict.
I am not familiar with mlogit so I cannot tell you if and how you can do it with that particular logistic regression program. But many software products have fit and predict options where if you want to predict a new observation you just supply the model formula.
Aside from that it seems that it would be easy for you to program it yourself by just plugging in the data point to the model formula and computing the predicted logit or through the | 199 |
Holy Land Experience holding a free Michael English concert
by Banks Lee March 14, 2014
written by Banks Lee March 14, 2014
Orlando's Holy Land Experience will be the site of a special free concert March 15 featuring Dove<|fim_middle|>aster completes track installation
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Among the songs recorded by Michael English that have charted as gospel or contemporary Christian hits are "Your Love Amazes Me," "Heaven to Earth," "Feels Like Redemption" and the duet "Healing" with country music legend Wynonna Judd.
"We're excited to have Michael English ministering to our guests here at Holy Land Experience," said the park's managing director, Mike Everett. "We're certain this is going to be a special evening that will touch a lot of people."
In addition to the music of Michael English, the evening will include the ministry of the Holy Land Singers and Dancers, along with a message from Pastor Jonathan McKnight, a regular speaker at Holy Land Experience.
The special free concert with Michael English is at 6:30 p.m. on March 15 at the Holy Land Experience Church of All Nations. Admission to the park is free that day after 5:30 p.m., with 2,000 seats available for the concert on a first-come-first-served basis.
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Bicycle commuters can use the showers at the CRC to clean up. Currently enrolled students can use the CRC for free with student ID. A shower room with lockers are also available on the bottom floor of Lab I. To sign up for a commuter locker in the shower room call or visit Parking Services in Sem 1 Room 3157, (360) 867-6352.
The student-run Bike Shop is located on the first floor of the CAB building. Volunteers are available to help you repair your bike or you can use the Bike Shop tools to do your own repairs.
If you need to pump up a tire on campus, two air stations are available: one on Red Square near the Lecture Halls; the other is at Seminar II-B near the CRC. There is also a bike repair station with a hand-pump and tools located just across from the Cafe in Seminar II.
Bicycle parking is available outside of nearly every place on campus! Many parking space are covered, too. We encourage you to use a sturdy lock. Locks are available for sale in the Greener Bookstore. You can also check out a bike lock for temporary use, for free at the Library circulation desk.
It's free and easy to register your bike at Evergreen. Just bring your bicycle to Police Services. After filling out a quick registration form, they'll place a sticker on your bicycle which will allow it to be returned to you should it ever be stolen and then recovered.
If you like to bike, but the ride to Evergreen is a little too far, try putting your bike on the bus. All Intercity Transit buses have bike racks, with room for two bikes per bus. Find out more on the Intercity Transit website.
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Chris lives in an idyllic countryside location in Therfield. His barn needed a quick redecoration. The paint<|fim_middle|>. Alex used the paint sprayer to paint the barn. It helped create an even finish for the doors and let us do the work in record time – 2.5 days!
Chris was very pleased with the end result. The barn didn't change dramatically but looked well looked after while retaining its rustic charm. | weathered and started to peel. He called us to quote for the works. We met in a couple of days, assessed the work and agreed on the price there and then.
We used electric sanders to sand down the old paint. The doors were cleaned down to bare wood. The exterior staircase needed replacement, so we left it out. Once the preparation was complete we painted the woodwork with Johnstone's exterior opaque paint for exterior woodwork. We worked with this paint before and were very happy with its quality. It is easy to apply, the coverage is excellent, and the price lets us keep our quotes very competitive | 126 |
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Bring north-west Queensland to your doorstep by taking a virtual tour through the Gulflander. You'll experience the platform at Normanton Station, along with the features of the Gulflander's rail motor and three carriages.
Gulflander Virtual Tour Tips
The Gulflander virtual tour shows three carriages and the Normanton Station platform.
To make a start, head along the platform to the Railmotor at the front and head in the doorway. You'll need to navigate in and out through the doorways in this tour to move between the carriages.
You can also move along the platform to check out the facilities at the station. The quiet and large open spaces of the station in Normanton is unlike the usual hustle and bustle that is found at train stations around the world.
For information about how to use the virtual tours, please visit Tour our trains on the Queensland Rail Travel website.
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That's the number of photos I have in my camera roll right now. It starts with our amazing engagement weekend in 2011 and ends with my kids' dinner antics last night. Six years of big and little moments that make up the life I share with my husband, our three kids, and two dogs, all stored in the cloud.
What's the best way to preserve those priceless memories so you can share them with family and friends for years to come?
For us, it's family yearbooks.
Yearbooks bring up feelings of nostalgia for me. Do you remember getting your yearbook at the end of each school year and flipping through those thick pages? Scanning to see yourself and friends, frozen in time throughout the year. Passing it around for everyone to sign. Thinking about how everyone has changed so much in just two semesters.
Of course, I finished high school when everyone was still on AOL Instant Messenger. When I graduated from college, Facebook was only open to people with .edu email addresses, and every moment of my life hadn't been posted online. I know things have changed so much with Instagram, Facebook and other social media platforms, but I hope I can raise my kids to appreciate cataloguing real, genuine moments with physical photos and albums – not just images in the cloud.
It almost goes without saying that our kids grow up so quickly. Just compare your kids today to a photo from January. Is there a little less baby fat? Have they grown about 10 inches since then? Mastered new skills or left familiar habits behind? Are they one day closer to college and adulthood? I know mine are.
Motherhood is this crazy paradox of wanting your kids to grow up and stay little, all at the same time. Compiling your priceless memories in a family yearbook allows you to do just that – freeze the adorable early years, and flip a few pages to watch them grow in the blink of an eye.
Every November I spend hours at our computer, reviewing the memories we've made as a family that year. Sometimes I pick a theme for our family yearbook. For 2016, the theme was "adventures" and every spread featured exciting moments from the year, organized by month. In March, my in-laws came to visit and we did fun stuff with the kids around Houston. In August, we adopted our Golden Retriever and took him to parks around The Woodlands. I included scenes<|fim_middle|> in your tummy, and then snuggled in your arms in the hospital and at home.
Whether you create family yearbooks yourself each year or have your photos professionally preserved after a photo session, it's the best way to share your story with family for years to come. Keep those gorgeous books stacked on your coffee table to show off to friends – and then pass them down to your children someday. That's my plan for our family yearbooks.
Someday, when my husband and I are older and our kids are grown, raising their own families and having their own adventures, Jordan and I can relive these years – the best years – one book at a time. When we're gone, our girls and their families will know what life looked like in August of 2017, when our oldest was 3.5, our middle daughter turned two, and our youngest was eight months old. It's our way of passing on our legacy to the next generation, of leaving our mark on this family.
What's your system for preserving your family's precious moments? | from family trips and the kids' milestone moments.
Other times, the purpose of the yearbook is to simply showcase how the kids have grown. One year I organized the book by month, featuring one photo of each child on a page. We only had two kids then, so they were side-by-side in each spread. From January to November, the changes in their little faces are incredible. Our youngest goes from being an infant to being a toddler by just turning a few pages.
Family yearbooks take some time to create, but it's so worth it. I used to keep mine on our coffee table and occasionally spend a few quiet moments looking through them after the kids went down. With my second child in the midst of her "destroy everything" phase, those memories are stacked safely on the bookshelf for now!
For my clients, I offer several family heirloom album options following a session, which is similar to a family yearbook since it captures special memories all in one place. Clients who select The Bump to Crib Story, which includes maternity, Fresh 48 and newborn sessions all in one package, receive a gorgeous album of photos from each session. What a beautiful way to show your child where their story began – tucked safely | 251 |
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Romance is an essential ingredient of life. Without it, life is colorless and dull. This isn't an attack on romance. Romanticism has given the world some of the greatest works of art, refining our aesthetic sense. It has also validated human emotion as way to enhance the experience of living.
Cultivating one's romantic nature is not the same as 'romanticizing' something. When we romanticize, we can't recognize what's true anymore. Imagination, fantasy, love rituals all have a special place in the living of human life. Yet when we no longer know what's true, all lines are blurred and we suffer because of the choices we make.
We all want to be loved, this is the natural order of things. Love is the true sustainer of life. We're biologically programmed to seek, find and connect. When we do, we hope it's magical and forever. It often isn't. There are many reasons why. What's going to be discussed here is how much pressure we put on a partner and vice versa, and the relationship itself to be the answer to everything for which we need an answer.
Relationships are part of<|fim_middle|> The one area that somehow doesn't enter our life education is the relationship with ourselves.
This relationship is the basis of all others. It has to have certain levels of esteem, worth, acceptance, and love of the 'self' variety. These are non-negotiable touchstones. Entering a personal relationship without at least a plateau of inner wholeness is setting that relationship on a rocky foundation.
Only when we are comfortable with who we are can we truly function independently in a healthy way, can we truly function within a relationship.
Sometimes one partner is less at peace with themselves, sometimes both. It's valid for the relationship to be a place for one partner to lift the other, as long as the other partner takes on responsibility for themselves. If this dynamic reaches a state of diminishing returns, it's no longer valid, healthy or functional. Often the partner with more peace within will justify and thus romanticize their role in helping their partner grow. If there's little action from the partner being lifted, this eventually becomes an unsustainable situation and choices have to be made.
If both partners still have a lot of connecting with themselves to do, the relationship can quickly fill with resentments, anger, blame and unhappiness.
It's important to recognize that all the emotional and psychological wounding we carry with us from the past is relational in nature: It has to do with not feeling fully loved. And it happened in our earliest relationships—with our caretakers—when our brain and body were totally soft and impressionable. As a result, the ego's relational patterns have largely developed as protection schemes to insulate us from the vulnerable openness that love entails. In relationship the ego acts as a survival mechanism for getting needs met while fending off the threat of being hurt, manipulated, controlled, rejected, or abandoned in ways we were as a child. This is normal and totally understandable. Yet if it's the main tenor of a relationship, it keeps us locked into complex strategies of defensiveness and control that undermine the possibility of deeper connection.
It's a relationship, not a magical balm. Sure, there are many upsides, as long it's realized that we're in a relationship with another human being who's probably as broken as we are. We're relational creatures, so it's easy to have rosy expectations. If we only came into a pairing with awareness! Simple awareness that this person isn't here to take care of our core contentment, that that's up to us.
Our partner can add to our happiness, can draw it out when we're sad, can bring us joy, but it's a pouring into the fountain of joy that's already there, not building the fountain for us.
This is the mistake we make isn't it? Seeking outside of us what is inside. We also put happiness into the future. It's on hold until we reach, have, accomplish this, this and this.
When it comes to love, it's better to be love and see who and what takes its form in our life. If we grieve lack of love, love can't enter.
Being love is a quest. It begins with learning to love ourselves without holding back. Depending on our wounds, this can be tricky, but it's essential. It's balanced, humble love. Simple self-appreciation and validation. It's not 'diva' love. It's not to pump up ego. It's there to help us become whole.
Loving ourselves is all kinds of good. It also eventually leads to empowerment. Living from an empowered place is a correlate of happiness and integrity.
This post deals with romanticizing spirituality. | being human. We're gregarious creatures. We're born out of a relationship and enter one in a family immediately. Relationship is all we know really. | 32 |
William Whewell ( ; 24 May 17946 March 1866) was an English polymath, scientist, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian, and historian of science. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. In his time as a student there, he achieved distinction in both poetry and mathematics.
The breadth of Whewell's endeavours is his remarkable feature. In a time of increasing specialization, Whewell belonged in an earlier era when natural philosophers investigated widely. He published work in mechanics, physics, geology, astronomy, and economics, while also composing poetry, writing a Bridgewater Treatise, translating the works of Goethe, and writing sermons and theological tracts. In mathematics, Whewell introduced what is now called the Whewell equation, defining the shape of a curve without reference to an arbitrarily chosen coordinate system. He also organized thousands of volunteers internationally to study ocean tides, in what is now considered one of the first citizen science projects. He received the Royal Medal for this work in 1837.
One of Whewell's greatest gifts to science was his word-smithing. He corresponded with many in his field and helped them come up with neologisms for their discoveries. Whewell coined, among other terms, scientist, physicist, linguistics, consilience, catastrophism, uniformitarianism, and astigmatism; he suggested to Michael Faraday the terms electrode, ion, dielectric, anode, and cathode.
Whewell died in Cambridge in 1866 as a result of a fall from his horse.
Early life, education and marriages
Whewell was born in Lancaster, the son of John Whewell and his wife, Elizabeth Bennison.
His father was a master carpenter, and wished him to follow his trade, but William's success in mathematics at Lancaster Royal Grammar School and Heversham grammar school won him an exhibition (a type of scholarship) at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1812. He was the eldest of seven children having three brothers and three sisters born after him. Two brothers died as infants; the third died in 1812. Two of his sisters married; he corresponded with them in his career as a student and then a professor. His mother died in 1807, when Whewell was 13 years old. His father died in 1816, the year Whewell received his bachelor degree at Trinity College, but before his most significant professional accomplishments.
Whewell married, firstly, in 1841, Cordelia Marshall, daughter of John Marshall. Within days of his marriage, Whewell was recommended to be master of Trinity College in Cambridge, following Christopher Wordsworth. Cordelia died in 1855. In 1858 he married again, to Everina Frances (née Ellis), widow of Sir Gilbert Affleck, 5th Baronet who had died in 1854. He had no children.
Career
In 1814 he was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal for poetry. He was Second Wrangler in 1816, President of the Cambridge Union Society in 1817, became fellow and tutor of his college.
He was professor of mineralogy from 1828 to 1832 and Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy (then called "moral theology and casuistical divinity") from 1838 to 1855. During the years as professor of philosophy, in 1841, Whewell succeeded Christopher Wordsworth as master.
Death and legacy
Whewell died in Cambridge in 1866 as a result of a fall from his horse. He was buried in the chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge, whilst his wives are buried together in the Mill Road Cemetery, Cambridge. A window dedicated to Lady Affleck, his second wife, was installed in her memory in the chancel of All Saints' Church, Cambridge and made by Morris & Co.
A list of his writings was prepared after his death by Isaac Todhunter in two volumes, the first being an index of the names of persons with whom Whewell corresponded. Another book was published five years later, as a biography of Whewell's life interspersed with his letters to his father, his sisters, and other correspondence, written and compiled by his niece by marriage, Janet Mary Douglas, called Mrs Stair Douglas on the book's title page. These books are available online in their entirety as part of the Internet Archive.
Endeavours
History and development of science
In 1826 and 1828, Whewell was engaged with George Airy in conducting experiments in Dolcoath mine in Cornwall, in order to determine the density of the earth. Their united labours were unsuccessful, and Whewell did little more in the way of experimental science. He was the author, however, of an Essay on Mineralogical Classification, published in 1828, and carried out extensive work on the tides.
When Whewell started his work on tides, there was a theory explaining the forces causing the tides, based on the work of Newton, Bernoulli, and Laplace. But this explained the forces, not how tides actually propagated in oceans bounded by continents. There was a series of tidal observations for a few ports, such as London and Liverpool, which allowed tide tables to be produced for these ports. However the methods used to create such tables, and in some cases the observations, were closely guarded trade secrets. John Lubbock, a former student of Whewell's, had analysed the available historic data (covering up to 25 years) for several ports to allow tables to be generated on a theoretical basis, publishing the methodology. This work was supported by Francis Beaufort, Hydrographer of the Navy, and contributed to the publication of the Admiralty Tide Tables starting in 1833.
Whewell built on Lubbock's work to develop an understanding of tidal patterns around the world that could be used to generate predictions for many locations without the need for long series of tidal observations at each port. This required extensive new observations, initially obtained through an informal network, and later through formal projects enabled by Beaufort at the Admiralty. In the first of these, in June 1834, every Coast Guard station in the United Kingdom recorded the tides every fifteen minutes for two weeks. The second, in June 1835, was an international collaboration, involving Admiralty Surveyors, other Royal Navy and British observers, as well as those from the United States, France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, and the Netherlands. Islands, such as the Channel Islands, were particularly interesting, adding important detail of the progress of the tides through the ocean. The Admiralty also provided the resources for data analysis, and J.F. Dessiou, an expert calculator on the Admiralty staff, was in charge of the calculations.
Whewell made extensive use of graphical methods, and these became not just ways of displaying results, but tools in the analysis of data. He published a number of maps showing cotidal lines (a term coined by Lubbock) - lines joining points where high tide occurred at the same time. These allowed a graphical representation of the progression of tidal waves through the ocean. From this, Whewell predicted that there should be a place where there was no tidal rise or fall in the southern part of the North Sea. Such a "no-tide zone" is now called an amphidromic point. In 1840, the naval surveyor William Hewett confirmed Whewell's prediction. This involved anchoring his ship, HMS Fairy, and taking repeated soundings at the same location with lead and line, precautions being needed to allow for irregularities in the sea bed, and the effects of tidal flow. The data showed a rise of no more than . He was also an accomplished artist of geological landscapes and his pencil drawing of the Wren's Nest, Dudley was printed in Roderick Murchison's 'Siluria'.
Whewell published about 20 papers over a period of 20 years on his tidal researches. This was his major scientific achievement, and was an important source for his understanding of the process of scientific enquiry, the subject of one of his major works Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences.
His best-known works are two voluminous books that attempt to systematize the development of the sciences, History of the Inductive Sciences (1837) and The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded Upon Their History (1840, 1847, 1858–60). While the History traced how each branch of the sciences had evolved since antiquity, Whewell viewed the Philosophy as the "Moral" of the previous work as it sought to extract a universal theory of knowledge through history.
In the latter, he attempted to follow Francis Bacon's plan for discovery. He examined ideas ("explication of conceptions") and by the "colligation of facts" endeavored to unite these ideas with the facts and so construct science. This colligation is an "act of thought", a mental operation consisting of bringing together a number of empirical facts by "superinducing" upon them a conception which unites the facts and renders them capable of being expressed in general laws. Whewell refers to as an example Kepler and the discovery of the elliptical orbit: the orbit's points were colligated by the conception of the ellipse, not by the discovery of new facts. These conceptions are not "innate" (as in Kant), but being the fruits of the "progress of scientific thought (history) are unfolded in clearness and distinctness".
Whewell's three steps of induction
Whewell analyzed inductive reasoning into three steps:
The selection of the (fundamental) idea, such as space, number, cause, or likeness (resemblance);
The formation of the conception, or more special modification of those ideas, as a circle, a uniform force, etc.; and,
The determination of magnitudes.
Upon these follow special methods of induction applicable to quantity: the method of curves, the method of means, the method of least squares and the method of residues, and special methods depending on resemblance (to which the transition is made through the law of continuity), such as the method of gradation and the method of natural classification. In Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences Whewell was the first to use the term "consilience" to discuss the unification of knowledge between the different branches of learning.
Opponent of English empiricism
Here, as in his ethical doctrine, Whewell was moved by opposition to contemporary English empiricism. Following Immanuel Kant, he asserted against John Stuart Mill the a priori nature of necessary truth, and by his rules for the construction of conceptions he dispensed with the inductive methods of Mill. Yet, according to Laura J. Snyder, "surprisingly, the received view of Whewell's methodology in the 20th century has tended to describe him as an anti-inductivist in the Popperian mold, that is it is claimed that Whewell endorses a 'conjectures and refutations' view of scientific discovery. Whewell explicitly rejects the hypothetico-deductive claim that hypotheses discovered by non-rational guesswork can be confirmed by consequentialist testing. Whewell explained that new hypotheses are 'collected from the facts' (Philosophy of Inductive Sciences, 1849, 17)". In sum, the scientific discovery is a partly empirical and partly rational process; the "discovery of the conceptions is neither guesswork nor merely a matter of observations", we infer more than we see.
Whewell's neologisms
One of Whewell's greatest gifts to science was his wordsmithing. He often corresponded with many in his field and helped them come up with new terms for their discoveries. In fact, Whewell came up with the term scientist itself in 1833, and it was first published in Whewell's anonymous 1834 review of Mary Somerville's On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences published in the Quarterly Review. (They had previously been known as "natural philosophers" or "men of science").
Work in college administration
Whewell was prominent not only in scientific research and philosophy but also in university and college administration. His first work, An Elementary Treatise on Mechanics (1819), cooperated with those of George Peacock and John Herschel in reforming the Cambridge method of mathematical teaching. His work and publications also helped influence the recognition of the moral and natural sciences as an integral part of the Cambridge curriculum.
In general, however, especially in later years, he opposed reform: he defended the tutorial system, and in a controversy with Connop Thirlwall (1834), opposed the admission of Dissenters; he upheld the clerical fellowship system, the privileged class of "fellow-commoners", and the authority of heads of colleges in university affairs.
He opposed the appointment of the University Commission (1850) and wrote two pamphlets (Remarks) against the reform of the university (1855). He stood against the scheme of entrusting elections to the members of the senate and instead, advocated the use of college funds and the subvention of scientific and professorial work.
He was elected Master of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1841, and retained that position until his death in 1866.
The Whewell Professorship of International Law and the Whewell Scholarships were established through the provisions of his will.
Whewell's interests in architecture
Aside from Science, Whewell was also interested in the history of architecture throughout his life. He is best known for his writings on Gothic architecture, specifically his book, Architectural Notes on German Churches (first published in 1830). In this work, Whewell established a strict nomenclature for German Gothic churches and came up with a theory of stylistic development. His<|fim_middle|>.
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Six Lectures from Archive for the History of Economic Thought – papers on mathematical economics as well as a set of introductory lectures
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He paid from his own resources for the construction of two new courts of rooms at Trinity College, Cambridge, built in a Gothic style. The two courts were completed in 1860 and (posthumously) in 1868, and are now collectively named Whewell's Court (in the singular).
Whewell's works in philosophy and morals
Between 1835 and 1861 Whewell produced various works on the philosophy of morals and politics, the chief of which, Elements of Morality, including Polity, was published in 1845. The peculiarity of this work—written from what is known as the intuitional point of view—is its fivefold division of the springs of action and of their objects, of the primary and universal rights of man (personal security, property, contract, family rights, and government), and of the cardinal virtues (benevolence, justice, truth, purity and order).
Among Whewell's other works—too numerous to mention—were popular writings such as:
the third Bridgewater Treatise, Astronomy and General Physics considered with reference to Natural Theology (1833),
the two volumes treatise The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History (1840),
the essay Of the Plurality of Worlds (1853), in which he argued against the probability of life on other planets,
the Platonic Dialogues for English Readers (1850–1861),
the Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England (1852),
the essay, Of a Liberal Education in General, with particular reference to the Leading Studies of the University of Cambridge (1845),
the important edition and abridged translation of Hugo Grotius, De jure belli ac pacis (1853), and
the edition of the Mathematical Works of Isaac Barrow (1860).
Whewell was one of the Cambridge dons whom Charles Darwin met during his education there, and when Darwin returned from the Beagle voyage he was directly influenced by Whewell, who persuaded Darwin to become secretary of the Geological Society of London. The title pages of On the Origin of Species open with a quotation from Whewell's Bridgewater Treatise about science founded on a natural theology of a creator establishing laws:
But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this—we can perceive that events are brought about not by insulated interpositions of Divine power, exerted in each particular case, but by the establishment of general laws.
Though Darwin used the concepts of Whewell as he made and tested his hypotheses regarding the theory of evolution, Whewell did not support Darwin's theory itself.
"Whewell also famously opposed the idea of evolution. First he published a new book, Indications of the Creator, 1845, composed of extracts from his earlier works to counteract the popular anonymous evolutionary work Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. Later Whewell opposed Darwin's theories of evolution."
Works by Whewell
(1830) New edition 1835. Third edition 1842.
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(1833) Astronomy and general physics considered with reference to Natural Theology (Bridgewater Treatise). Cambridge.
(1836) Elementary Treatise on Mechanics, 5th edition, first edition 1819.
(1837) History of the Inductive Sciences, from the Earliest to the Present Times. 3 vols, London. Volume 1, volume 2, volume 3. 2nd ed 1847 (2 vols). 3rd ed 1857 (2 vols). 1st German ed 1840–41.
(1837) On the Principles of English University Education. London, 1837.
(1840) The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, founded upon their history. 2 vols, London. 2nd ed 1847. Volume 1. Volume 2.
(1845) The Elements of Morality, including polity. 2 vols, London. Volume 1 Volume 2.
(1846) Lectures on systematic Morality. London.
(1849) Of Induction, with especial reference to Mr. J. Stuart Mill's System of Logic. London.
(1850) Mathematical exposition of some doctrines of political economy: a second memoir. Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 9:128–49.
(1852) Lectures on the history of Moral Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
(1853) Hugonis Grotii de jure belli et pacis libri tres : accompanied by an abridged translation by William Whewell, London: John W. Parker, volume 1, volume 2, volume 3.
(1853) Of the Plurality of Worlds. London.
(1857) Spedding's complete edition of the works of Bacon. Edinburgh Review 106:287–322.
(1858a) The history of scientific ideas. 2 vols, London.
(1858b) Novum Organon renovatum, London.
(1860a) On the philosophy of discovery: chapters historical and critical. London.
(1861) Plato's Republic (translation). Cambridge.
(1862) Six Lectures on Political Economy, Cambridge.
(1862) Additional Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy, Cambridge.
(1866) Comte and Positivism. Macmillan's Magazine 13:353–62.
Honors and recognitions
Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1847)
The debating society at Lancaster Royal Grammar School is named the Whewell Society in honor of Whewell being an Old Lancastrian.
The crater Whewell on the Moon
The Gothic buildings known as Whewell's Court in Trinity College, Cambridge
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In fiction
In the 1857 novel Barchester Towers Charlotte Stanhope uses the topic of the theological arguments, concerning the possibility of intelligent life on other planets, between Whewell and David Brewster in an attempt to start up a conversation between her impecunious brother and the wealthy young widow Eleanor Bold.
See also
Catastrophism
Uniformitarianism
Earl of Bridgewater for other Bridgewater Treatise
Law of three stages for Whewell's opposition to Auguste Comte's positivism
Michael Faraday
References
Further reading
Fisch, M. (1991), William Whewell Philosopher of Science, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Fisch, M. and Schaffer S. J. (eds.) (1991), William Whewell: A Composite Portrait, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Whewell, W., Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology; Bridgewater Treatises, W. Pickering, 1833 (reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009; )
Whewell, W., Of the Plurality of Worlds. An Essay; J. W. Parker and son, 1853 (reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009; )
Yeo, R. (1991), Defining Science: William Whewell, Natural Knowledge and Public Debate in Early Victorian Britain, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Zamecki, Stefan, Komentarze do naukoznawczych poglądów Williama Whewella (1794–1866): studium historyczno-metodologiczne [Commentaries to the Logological Views of William Whewell (1794–1866): A Historical-Methodological Study], Warsaw, Wydawnictwa IHN PAN, 2012, , English-language summary: pp. 741–43 | 1,803 |
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British rock legends Deep Purple return with a new studio album InFinite on 2LP + DVD. InFinite was tracked in February 2016 at a studio in Nashville, and was once again helmed by Bob Ezrin, who has previously worked with Kiss, Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, Alice Cooper and Kansas, among others.
Speaking to Vintage Rock at the Hall Of Heavy Metal History induction ceremony at the Anaheim Expo Center in Anaheim, California, Deep Purple keyboardist Don Airey stated about the band's new disc: "It's a little heavier than the last one. It's a bit more prog, as we say in England. I think it's gonna surprise a lot of people. It surprised me when I heard it. [Laughs] I mean, it really did."
Deep Purple recently announced their "Long Goodbye Tour," which will bring the legendary live show once again all over the world. The band has not yet answered the many questions received by fans from all over the world who are speculating about the meaning of the title "InFinite" and "Long Goodbye."
Asked if the upcoming tour will mark Deep Purple's farewell to the concert stage, Airey said: "Well, we've got two years of touring coming up. Whether there'll be anything beyond that, time will tell. As Bruce Payne, our manager, said, never say never. But we'll just have to see."
Infinite arrives roughly four years after the band's most recent set of new material, Now What?! — a record that cracked the U.K. Top 20 and earned Deep Purple the Comeback of the Year honors at 2014's Revolver Golden God Awards.
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Orange High School competed in the District Mock Trial Competition on January 18, 2019 at the Cleveland Justice Center and advanced six of seven teams to the Regional Tournament. This is the most number of teams advancing to regionals ever and includes an all 9th-grade team. The six teams now move on to Regional Competition on Friday, February 15, 2019. The only team that did not advance was knocked out because it faced another Orange team in the competition. Students received<|fim_middle|> performances as attorneys and witnesses.
Receiving awards as Outstanding Attorneys were Anna Brateanu (twice), Katie Brateanu, Katie Hoover, Jackson Leb, Lyla Berns (twice), Aidan Sterns, Nicolle Yankelevich , Dayna Rapkin, Sophie Newman, and Lindsey Rosenblatt.
Receiving awards as Outstanding Witnesses were Zoey Yelsky, Leora Joseph, Elana Rubanenko (twice), Allie Ahn, Peyton Weiss, Alex Proles, Robert Miron, Sophie Newman, and Sami Greenwald. | 22 individual awards for outstanding | 7 |
In A Few Of My Favourite Books I share some delightful books from my personal collection. The third book from my collection is The Frog Prince(ss) by Caroline Glicks<|fim_middle|>, because that's what all our childhood stories told us, however, his statement "But life's much better as a frog" instantly warns us that traditional fairytale tropes are going to be seriously subverted.
One of the joys of this book is in the details: the bride and groom both have frog tongues. The frong prince and princess have a pond full of tadpoles each of which have crowns upon their heads.
The Frog Prince(ss) was hand screenprinted in an edition of 85 copies in 1998. Mine is copy number 45.
I hope you've enjoyed the third of A Few of My Favourite Books and the tiniest glimpse into my collection. Please feel free to leave a comment with your thoughts. Thank you. | man. Caroline understands visual storytelling so well that this single sheet folding concertina book is a masterclass in sequential illustration. Printed in a four-colour palette of green, yellow, purple and pink, the story plays with all our pre-conceived notions of fairy tales, family relationships and storytelling. Every page is a surprise and a delight. From the start, the book is a standard fairy tale, with its "Once upon a time…" opening line. We all know that this frog used to be a prince | 102 |
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When outfitting its newest manufacturing facility, Sacramento-based Creative Design Interiors sought a high-production workflow solution providing the lowest operating costs and greatest reliability. The company turned to BACA Systems, the leading manufacturer of robotic and automated fabrication technology for the stone industry, for help.
BACA Systems installed two Robo SawJets in CDI's new Sacramento production facility in October 2017. Each sawjet integrates a 26HP direct-drive saw and a high-pressure abrasive waterjet with a durable KUK<|fim_middle|> freestanding waterjet table with three Robo SawJets at the Surface Crafters facility, cutting operating costs and increasing productivity.
CDI itself is part of a larger consortium of companies. It was acquired by Interior Logic Group in 2014. With the ability to draw inspiration and knowledge from fabrication shops located all across the country, each using a variety of other machines from other manufacturers, CDI chose to investigate the potential of BACA Systems products. "Part of our philosophy is we are always looking for better," Peralta said.
CDI personnel visited BACA's headquarters in Lake Orion, Michigan, through the company's Fly to Detroit program. They liked what they saw. | A Robotics industrial robot.
Because the Robo SawJet is a dual-table system, a slab can be loaded while another is being cut. It can cut a standard 40-square-foot kitchen countertop with sink hole from a slab, finishing the job within 15-18 minutes. This takes half the time of other machines. At full capacity, CDI's Sacramento facility is cutting 25 to 27 slabs per days.
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BACA Systems also offers its own VeinMatch software, allowing shops to match veins from different parts of the same slab, preventing waste. It integrates with the Slabsmith software that CDI has traditionally used.
The Robot Sawjet incorporates a tough H2O jet pump that can hold up in 24-hour per day automotive manufacturing environments. The waterjet components are higher quality than other brands that Peralta has used.
If there are workflow issues with a Robot Sawjet, BACA technicians can connect directly with the onboard computer to diagnosis the problems. "It's very easy how BACA can fix the problems compared to different companies," he said.
CDI's management learned about the capabilities of the Robo SawJet after the purchase of another company, Surface Crafters, more than a year ago. Previously, BACA Systems had replaced two gantry sawjets and a | 336 |
Willamette River Crossings: Sellwood Bridge in Portland, Oregon
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The new bridge replaced a deck truss structure that was designed by Gustav Lindenthal in 1925. The contractor (Slayden/Sundt Joint Venture) moved the old superstructure from its concrete piers onto temporary steel towers so people could use it while the new bridge was being built (see photo below courtesy of KATU).
An interesting detail on the new bridge is the concrete arch springings that project out of the caissons and connect to the steel arch ribs (see photo below). The deck is supported by the spandrel columns on the arches and by big steel piers directly over the caissons.
The concrete springings are repeated at the ends of the river spans where they are buried deep into the ground to resist service loads and the occasion earthquake (see photo below).
The new bridge has a 63' to 93' wide deck with two vehicle lanes, two 6.5 ft wide shoulder/bike lanes, and two 12 foot wide sidewalks. There is also a middle lane to allow for future light rail tracks (see photo below). The bridge owner is Multnomah County.
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The Flint City Council has voted to reconnect the city's water system to Detroit Water and Sewerage Department. The city disconnected<|fim_middle|> vote was more of a symbolic gesture, since only Emergency Manager Jerry Ambrose can make the final decision. | from the water system in 2014 as part of a cost-saving measure.
Council President Josh Freedman was the only one to vote against the proposal. He says reconnecting to Detroit's water service would cost an extra 850 thousand dollars a month.
"The bigger question is if we are testing in compliance with EPA and the state of Michigan, do we really need to go back or do we need to do a better job of educating our community that yeah we had some struggles at the beginning but those changes as we start to implement them are showing positive results," Freedman says.
Residents have been complaining about the color and smell of water drawn from the Flint River.
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Rutgers Research Says MF Development Has Bigger Impact On Schools Than Believed
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Morris Davis, left, director of the Rutgers Center for Real Estate, and Deborah Tantleff, a member of the Center's executive committee
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NEWARK, NJ—(SBN)—Municipalities may need to increase their expectations of how new multifamily construction will affect their schools, and probably should stop using a "one size fits all" model in determining the impact of multifamily construction on local school capacity, according to research released by The Center for Real Estate at Rutgers Business School.
The Center has released its first public policy white paper, "School-Age Children in Rental Units in New Jersey: Results from a Survey of Developers and Property Managers."
You can listen to an audio conversation with Prof. Morris Davis of the Rutgers Center for Real Estate and Debra Tantleff, president of Tantum Real Estate and a member of the Center's executive committee, in the player below. If you do not see a player, you can click here to listen to the podcast.
In what is being called the first comprehensive, data-based research to determine the impact of multifamily developments on New Jersey school capacity needs, Rutgers conducted a comprehensive survey of New Jersey real estate owners and property managers of multifamily rental buildings.
"The issue of school-age children in new multifamily development is frequently a contentious debate, and one that can benefit<|fim_middle|> private sectors alike. Some of the findings include:
Across all income levels and building product types the number of school-age children increases with the number of bedrooms;
For any given number of bedrooms and product types, the number of school-age children decreases as renters' household incomes rise;
Holding income and the number of bedrooms fixed, the amount of school-age children has an inverse relationship with density (e.g. garden apartments, with fewer units per building, have a greater number of school-age children, and mid-and-high-rise buildings with a greater number of units per building have a lesser number of school-age children);
Buildings with an average income of less than $50,000 per year have a similar number of school-age children regardless of whether the buildings include affordable units or market-rate units;
Buildings constructed before 2000 have a significantly higher number of school-age children living in market-rate units than do buildings built after 2000; and
On average, the number of school-age children per 100 affordable units is significantly higher than the number of school-age children per 100 market-rate units.
The study was completed by an academic and industry team led by Davis.
Collaborating on the paper were the Center's Executive Committee members Deborah Tantleff, founder and president of Tantum Real Estate; Ron Ladell, senior vice president of AvalonBay Communities; and Professor David Frame, PhD, director of curriculum for the Rutgers Center for Real Estate.
"Because of the Center's illuminating research, we no longer need to have discussions about the impact of school-age children from new development in theoretical or abstract terms," says Ladell. "This comprehensive study will serve as a planning tool for developers, while empowering and educating municipalities to make smart development policy. It's a true victory for the private and public sectors alike."
"This now becomes a tool for municipal planners to educate their administration and community outreach as to the realities of the marketplace," says Tantleff. "It is a tool that's available to the development community to allow the development community to present their fiscal impact, their analysis and their impact studies. The beauty of this is coming through an objective institution like Rutgers. This allows both sides of the table to use the tool to get to the end. This data now shows holistic trends, county trends, and it objectifies the conversation, where a developer can respect and appreciate the unique local nature of a local municipality, but have a more objective holistic conversation."
The Center's study incorporated 251 surveys, representing more than 40,000 market-rate units and 4,000 affordable units. The sample size included 3.5 percent of all rental units in New Jersey.
The complete study (PDF file) can be downloaded at the following link: https://www.rutgersrealestate.com/publications/white-papers/school-age-children-study/
The Rutgers Center for Real Estate, now beginning its fourth year of operation, provides real estate education and scholarships to students at both the Newark and New Brunswick campuses. The Center enjoys the support of the industry with a 60-plus-person advisory board and 25-plus-person Emerging Leaders Council, whose generosity enabled the Center to award nearly $250,000 in scholarships since its inception. | immensely from robust, hard data that takes into account a multitude of variables," said Professor Morris A. Davis, Paul V. Profeta chair of real estate and academic director of the Rutgers Center for Real Estate. "This research is emblematic of the Center's mission as a whole, as we've interfaced closely with leading practitioners from the commercial real estate industry to uncover new academic insights with real practical applications."
The study found a strong relationship between the number of school-age children in rental developments and a range of other key factors, including renters' household income, product density and the age of the building. High-rise multifamily buildings tend to generate less demand for school capacity because less families with school-age children appear to rent in them, the study suggests.
The comprehensive study was conducted over an intensive 18-month period and surveyed a diverse array of more than 40,000 residential units in New Jersey. The study provides an unprecedented level of context for the oft-contested issue of the effects of development on generating school-age children by controlling for a number of important variables, including: household income; whether the units were market rate or designated affordable housing; the number of bedrooms in each unit; and building type and age.
As developers and municipalities assess new multifamily developments and the potential impact to local schools, the study provides critical data to better inform decision-making for the public and | 279 |
Steven Cornett is an urban farmer based in the San Diego area and he's growing<|fim_middle|> Feb 28, 2019 at Steadfast Farm. Going over a variety of harvesting techniques at Steadfast Farm. Kyle and Kory from Steadfast are also demonstrating how they do it as well.
A segment of my 5-day workshop at Steadfast farm. Filmed between Feb 25-Mar 1, 2019. Erich demonstrates the washing and packing protocols at Steadfast.
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Erich Schultz and Curtis discuss other ways you can make money on your farm.
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A very condensed section of the workshop at Steadfast farm covering BCS basics, bed prep, planting, and transplanting with Erich Schultz.
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A mixture of limestone and ash – similar to the materials found after the fire – was used as the material to replicate the iconic gargoyle, which was added to the cathedral's roof during the 19th century restoration by architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc.
Elements of Notre-Dame could be remade using the damaged stone and ashes from the fire
"We saw the spire collapse and thought we could propose a way to combine the old materials with new technology to help speed up the reconstruction and make a cathedral that is not simply a copy of the original but rather a cathedral that would show its layered history proudly," Geboers told Dezeen.
Geboers believes using the materials left behind after the fire would address some philosophical problems posed by rebuilding Notre-Dame to the original design while using new materials.
"Isn't a copy just a fake? Simply copying, pretending there never was a fire, would be a historical forgery," he said.
The Lutetian Limestone that was originally used to build Notre-Dame, along with much of Paris, was taken from mines that have now been buried under the expanding city. Large oak beams that made up the now-destroyed timber roof of the cathedral were made from trees felled in the 13th century.
Concr3de has already printed a replacement gargoyle to demonstrate the process
Concr3de's proposal would allow the original material of the damaged building to be used in its reconstruction. Even the limestone damaged by the high temperatures of the blaze could be used in the process.
"We would break down the limestone to the right grade and the fire damage would not have an effect," explained Geboers.
Concr3de used scans of the stature that were readily available on the internet and printed it using an Armadillo White, a small 30 x 30 x 30 centimetre printer.
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"It's a custom inkjet 3D printer that is fine tuned to work with stone and stone-like materials," he said. "It prints with 0.1 millimetre precision and the cool thing about these printers is that any geometry is possible without the need for supports. It also allows for significant material customisation."
Goebers believes this technique could even be hypothetically used to print replacement stone vaults to replace those that were damaged when the collapsed spire crashed through the roof to the nave below.
"It would most likely be cheaper to print the lost pieces than to cut new stone," he said.
Stone and ash would be ground down to a fine enough grade to be printed with
This technique, says Concr3de, could be used to rebuild Notre-Dame in the tight timeframe of five years promised by the French president, despite experts predicting it could take decades.
The secretary general of France's manual trades organisation, Les Compagnons du Devoir, warned in a column for La Croix that it would take years to hire and train the hundreds of stonecutters and masons required to work on a project of this magnitude.
France to launch competition to design a new spire for Notre-Dame
3D printing the more intricate pieces would address this labour shortage, suggested Concr3de, while still employing existing skilled stonemasons to fix the printed pieces into place.
With over €1 billion (£866 million) pledged to rebuild Notre-Dame the restoration won't be short of funds. The issue facing architects now will be which version of the cathedral is rebuilt.
French prime minister Edouard Philippe has suggested holding an international competition to potentially design a more modern version of the 19th century spire that was lost in the fire.
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